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Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline
History & The Arts

Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline

...c.1889-90)] Adolf Hitler as an infant Adolf Hitler is born on April 20th in Braunau am Inn in the empire of Austria-Hungary. His parents' families are both of poor peasant backgrounds. His father, Alois, regarded as strict and distant, becomes a customs official and expects Adolf to follow a career into the civil service. Hitler’s mother, Klara, is of a more...
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...C) in dense clouds of gas and dust from which stars form, up to many millions of degrees in the interiors of stars. Although interstellar space is not empty, its density is far lower than that found in the best vacuum chambers on the Earth. In some stellar remnants, material the size of a cube of sugar would have a mass of 100 million tonnes! How can anyone know so much...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...C. and Rumbold, K. (2006) Reading for Pleasure: A Research Overview. London: National Literacy Trust. Clark, C. and Teravainen-Goff, A. (2018) Mental wellbeing, reading and writing: How children and young people’s mental wellbeing is related to their reading and writing experiences. Available at: https://cdn.literacytrust.org.uk/ media/ documents/...
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...c.1825, caricature, pencil, Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria. Photo: AKG Images, London/Erich Lessing. Discussion The main differences between this Schubertiad and a modern concert performance are obvious enough from the sepia drawing: the audience is small and crammed together very close to the performers. Most of the women are sitting in the front...
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...oneself as a distinct entity, separate from other people or things in one's environment (C. Evans, Dictionary of the Mind, Brain and Behaviour, quoted in Smith, 1985, 129). A state is conscious if it has experiential properties. The totality of the experiential properties of a state are ‘what it is like’ to have it (adapted from Block, 1995, 230). Consciousness is a word used by Philosophers, to signify that immediate ......
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...C PLAYING] CHRISTINE FORDE The term middle leadership is quite generalised. It’s not a specific role. It covers a layer of leadership. KATHLEEN KERRIGAN The rule of the middle leader and the extent to which they can contribute to those whole school matters is actually determined by the senior leaders and the school, how much are they willing to share of their roles,...
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...c times e super four postfix plus can be formed. Now take a look at the electronic configurations of the free lanthanide atoms and ions shown in Table 2. Table 2 Electronic configurations of the free lanthanide atoms and ions. ELEMENT SYMBOL LN(G) LN2+(G) LN3+(G) lanthanum La [Xe]5d16s2 5d1 4f0 cerium Ce [Xe]4f15d16s2 4f2 4f1 praseodymium Pr [Xe]4f36s2 4f3 4f2 neodymium...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...c) shows the micro structure of a typical steel (so-called because we are looking at the steel on a microscopic scale). This shows that as we look in closer detail, we begin to see that what we thought was quite a smooth, plain metal surface has a lot of underlying structure to it. Once we've zoomed in so that we can see features as small as 10 micrometres, it becomes...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs