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...education encouraged extensive borrowing of vocabulary e.g. French words for farmed animals pork, beef and mutton (modern French porc, bœuf and mouton) were adopted alongside native words swine, cow and sheep. [A pig feeding in the New Forest [Image: BinaryApe under CC-BY licence]] Who are you calling pork? Pig in the New Forest [Image: BinaryApe under CC-BY licence] The...

...education and women had freedom of movement. In addition, Spartan women were discouraged from spending time on household activities and encouraged to participate in active physical exercise. Their revealing sportswear earned them the nick-name 'thigh-showers'. However, at Olympia, women were still not allowed to participate in the most prestigious games festival in the...

...education. She was taken on a tour of the United States with her church choir and remained in the USA to study at Wilberforce University in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated with a B.Sc degree having met her husband. When they both returned to South Africa in 1901, Maxeke did so as South Africa's first Black woman graduate. Maxeke worked as a teacher and, together with her...

...class="highlight">education/2019/nov/27/bronze-cockerel-to-be-returned-to-nigeria-by-cambridge-college Credits Thank you to the Pitt Rivers Museum for use of the Female vocal group (Edo region, Nigeria, 1909) audio file. Acknowledgement Many thanks to Paul Dixon for providing photography for this article and the video content. All images are copyright of Paul Dixon....