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Homage to Celtalonia
Society, Politics & Law

Homage to Celtalonia

...Spanish Civil War between December 1936 and June 1937. He returned to England after being wounded, forever associated with a certain romanticism about this war that has tended to overlook the subsequent fascist regime of Franco that lasted until the mid-70s. Some of that romanticism lives on in the imagined nation that would be an independent Catalonia. The imagined...
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Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?
Science, Maths & Technology

Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?

...Spanish telecommunications firm, Telefonica, was also attacked. There have also been a large number of other suspected attacks, notably in Germany, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam. A total of 99 countries have suffered from this attack so far. Whether this is as a result of a larger international criminal organisation is still unknown, however, the rapidity...
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The Rise and Fall of the Slave Trade
History & The Arts

The Rise and Fall of the Slave Trade

...Spanish were the main organisers of the trade, but by the second half of the seventeenth century the countries of north-west Europe were becoming involved. During the eighteenth century, Britain was the foremost slave-trading power, alongside the French, the Dutch, the Portuguese, and the Spanish, all of whom had colonies in the New World. A "triangular trade" operated,...
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El Niño and war drive aid agencies to the brink
Nature & Environment

El Niño and war drive aid agencies to the brink

...Spanish term for the infant Christ, because it was observed in South America around Christmas. It can affect countries thousands of miles away. Although El Niño is not directly caused by climate change, Oxfam says, global warming makes it more likely that strong El Niños will develop. And, in turn, El Niños involve the release of a large amount of heat from the...
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Can you learn a language with an app?
Languages

Can you learn a language with an app?

...should not feel threatened by apps. Instead, teachers should encourage their students to use them to do the repetitive grammar work, leaving precious class time for more language interaction. Fernando Rosell-Aguilar, Senior lecturer in Spanish and Open Media Fellow, The Open University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...Spanish, French and Italian evolved from Latin. In other words, World English might have been no more than a celebration of diversity, like World Music, rather than the global lingua franca which it has also become. The Linguistic Nature of Global English Describing Global English as a lingua franca - a means of communication between speakers of different mother tongues -...
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Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two
Society, Politics & Law

Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two

...Spanish and Portuguese Empires carries sugar and sugar production to the so-called New World. Sugar quickly followed colonial conquest. Indeed, in 1493, on only his second voyage, Christopher Columbus took sugarcane seedlings to Hispaniola (now, the Dominican Republic). It is sugar production in the Caribbean and the New World that will launch not only a new form of...
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Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...Spanish and Italian firms were above 15 per cent, proportionally selling twice as much in Europe than British firms. Rather than bringing British firms closer to continental Europe, European integration appears to have pushed them to look elsewhere. Although by 2010 the sales of British firms outside of Europe were similar to those of their German and French counterparts...
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