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The Real Wonder Women
Society, Politics & Law

The Real Wonder Women

...Thorpe, and Liz Whitelegg. Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Playing on a tablet or mobile device? To play in full-screen mode, hold down the Ctrl key and select the 'Select to begin' link. This will open the game in a new browser tab....
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Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium

...le Clos of South Africa in the 100m butterfly event at Rio 2016. Aside from Schooling, three other athletes from Southeast Asia have won a gold medal in Rio as of this writing. They were Thai weightlifters Sukanya Srisurat and Sopita Tanasan, and Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh. Schooling’s victory was special because it gave Singapore its first ever Olympic gold...
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How do you become French President?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become French President?

...Le Pen National Front FN 6,421,426 17.90% Jean-Luc Mélenchon Left Front FG 3,984,822 11.10% François Bayrou Democratic Movement MoDem 3,275,122 9.13% Eva Joly Europe Ecology – The Greens EELV 828,345 2.31% Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Republic Arise DLR 643,907 1.79% Philippe Poutou New Anticapitalist Party NPA 411,160 1.15% Nathalie Arthaud Workers' Struggle LO 202,548...
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Choose your own philosophy adventure
History & The Arts

Choose your own philosophy adventure

...book Please note: This interactive feature will open in a pop-up window. To play in full-screen mode, hold down the Ctrl key and select the 'Open the book' link above. This will open the book in a new browser tab. For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari....
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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...Le Parrocchie di Regalpetra (published in the English edition as Salt in the Wound) was based on his experience as a schoolteacher in his hometown. His descriptions of poverty, fascism, and corruption in the Church and town hall were based on real events and became dominant themes in his later writing. Education informed their respective interrogations of wider cultures....
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From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...ModE) can be regarded externally as starting with the introduction of printing. Caxton’s selection of an East Midlands/London variety of English for the first printed books at the end of the 15th century contributed to the development of a standardised variety of the language, with fixed spelling and punctuation conventions and accepted vocabulary and grammatical forms....
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Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...Le Monde editor, Daniel Psenny, overlooks the emergency exit of the Bataclan, and it was he who shot the vidéo seen more than 12 million times in a few hours. Social networking, social solidarity The public space that these digital networks create allows citizens to build mutual support networks on a self-organising model. On Twitter, hashtags and their associated news...
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Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...et al., Nature, 2015), overlaid on bedrock topography map (Le Brocq et al., 2010). So the strengths of our study are that we use a computer model (instead of expert judgement and extrapolation), that we test it with observations, and that we use Bayes’ theorem to estimate probabilities of sea level rise. Limitations But there always limitations, and these are important...
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