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How Spanish sounded across its history
Languages

How Spanish sounded across its history

...works of literature written by authors from different eras and origins. More information about them and the corresponding transcripts can be found below. The middle ages - Glosa emilianense One of the earliest written examples of a form of Romance similar to Spanish can be found in the notes that a monk wrote in the margins of a religious text in Latin. These notes...
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Winchcombe Meteorite: Insights from the First Scientist on the Scene
Science, Maths & Technology

Winchcombe Meteorite: Insights from the First Scientist on the Scene

...working for the UK Fireball Alliance, together with colleagues in Australia and France, were able to define a well-constrained zone in which any surviving fragments from the fireball might be found. The region turned out to be close to Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, centred around the picturesque town of Winchcombe. An appeal went out to members of the public to look out...
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Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...working world” (Hal) through home education having enabled them to develop a unique set of experiences that sets them apart from their schooled peers. Several of the participants expressed how being immersed in the adult world since an early age allowed them to develop relationships with a range of different adults of varying ages and backgrounds. [B]eing able to meet...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...work in childcare or education, it’s likely that at some point in your career you’ve grappled with recycling systems and had conversations about ‘saving the environment’. You may be making connections with nature by cultivating responsibility for a patch of woodland to ensure the next generation will care more about local wildlife than the current one. I’m an...
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Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs

...work of Richard Owen in this review of Gowan Dawson's Dickens, Dinosaurs, and Design in Victorian Literature and Culture 44.4...[Charles Dickens meets a dinosaur] Although he is more likely remembered for coining the term “dinosaur,” Richard Owen also influenced the writings of his friend Charles Dickens. Gowan Dawson offers an historical overview of Owen, noted...
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‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library
History & The Arts

‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library

...working on the story of Helen Mary Gaskell’s War Library. This prime example of what I call ‘literary caregiving’ was begun in London as soon as war was declared in order to help wounded soldiers. Gaskell’s vision was of a library stocked with donated books, communicating care from those in the UK who sent books at the same time as delivering, by literary means,...
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Why do we keep running?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do we keep running?

...work around other people’s schedules. There are no courts, pitches, nets, bats, rackets or hoops necessary. You can just put on your shoes and go. It feels like the most natural way to exercise, but it has not always been this way. And it is not only these practicalities that motivate us. [Jogging by the New River, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire] Jogging by the New River,...
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A school reaches for the stars with an online astronomy course
Science, Maths & Technology

A school reaches for the stars with an online astronomy course

...working with the images, so it was important to get this right. Here at The Open University in Scotland we are very fortunate to have good links with local schools and are very grateful to the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) teacher and pupils at Denny High School for helping us in the developmental testing of the course." Science – it’s all...
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