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Pasqua Rosée opened the first coffee house in London in 1652, prompting a revolution in London society. “British culture was intensely hierarchical and structured. The idea that you could go and sit next to someone as an equal was radical,” says Markman Ellis, author of The Coffee House: A Cultural History.
for - trivia / history - first coffee house in London - opened in 1652 by - Pasqua Rosee - revolution in London society - broke through hierarchy of British society
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they all seem to use the "fake it till you make it" strategy (mentalism, mind over matter)<br /> but most are stuck in the "fake it" phase, because the british/US empire is too strong
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Daten sprechen dafür, dass die Eisfläche um die Antarktis in diesem antarktischen Sommer noch mehr schrumpft als 2023. Am 7. September war die von Eis bedeckte Fläche kleiner als vor einem Jahr. Forschende sehen darin ein Anzeichen dafür, dass das ganze antarktische System in einen anderen Zustand übergegangen ist, weil sich die erhöhten Lufttemperaturen jetzt auch auf den Ozean auswirken. Zu den Folgen gehören Veränderungen der Strömungen und ein schnelleres Abschmelzen der antarktischen Gletscher. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/two-incredible-extreme-events-antarctic-sea-ice-on-cusp-of-record-winter-low-for-second-year-running
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- Recent reduced abyssal overturning and ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin
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- Swirls and scoops: Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf
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2023 ist so viel antarktisches Meeteis geschmolzen wie nie zuvor seit Messbeginn. Es bedeckte 2 Millionen Quadratkilometer weniger als im langjährigen Durchschnitt, das entspricht der vierfachen Oberfläche Frankreichs. Ein Abschmelzen in diesem Ausmaß ist durch die globale Erhitzung deutlich wahrscheinlicher geworden, wie eine neue Studie der British Antarctic Survey zeigt. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/le-record-de-fonte-de-la-banquise-en-antarctique-un-evenement-au-risque-multiplie-par-quatre-par-le-rechauffement-climatique-20240520_LVEG42DUB5BONPRXYZDTGWQJTQ/
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Bei einer Hitzewelle in der Antarktis lag die Temperatur 38,5° über dem Durchschnittswert. Dieser enorm hohe Wert schockiert Forschende und ist bisher nicht erklärbar. Der Guardian stellt den Kontext ausführlich dar und hat dazu mehrere Fachleute befragt. Eine neue Publikation spricht von einem regime shift beim antarktischen Sommer-Meereis. Er gefährdet u.a. den Krill und die Kolonien der Kaiserpinguine. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/simply-mind-boggling-world-record-temperature-jump-in-antarctic-raises-fears-of-catastrophe
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- region: Antarctica
- expert: Will Hobbs
- expert: Kate Hendry
- Study: Observational Evidence for a Regime Shift in Summer Antarctic Sea Ice
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- process: temperature records
- species: emperor penguin
- species: Krill
- expert: Michael Meredith
- institution: British Antarctic Survey
- treaty: Antarctic Treaty
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“Legalizing deadly drugs has killed users, hurt neighbourhoods, and damaged B.C. communities.”
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Cowen Tracts
Cowen Tracts on JSTOR
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Zusammenfassender Artikel über Studien zu Klimafolgen in der Antarktis und zu dafür relevanten Ereignissen. 2023 sind Entwicklungen sichtbar geworden, die erst für wesentlich später in diesem Jahrhundert erwartet worden waren. Der enorme und möglicherweise dauerhafte Verlust an Merreis ist dafür genauso relevant wie die zunehmende Instabilität des westantarktischen und möglicherweise inzwischen auch des ostantarktischen Eisschilds. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/31/red-alert-in-antarctica-the-year-rapid-dramatic-change-hit-climate-scientists-like-a-punch-in-the-guts
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- Record low 2022 Antarctic sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins
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Eine neue Studie ergibt, dass sich das Abschmelzen des westantarktischen Eisschilds selbst dann fortsetzen wird, wenn die Erderhitzung auf 1,5° begrenzt wird. Das Schelfeis stellt ein Kipppelememt dar. Der Abschmelzvorgang verstärkt sich selbst und führt zu einer unaufhaltsamen Erhöhung des Meeresspiegels, weil er den Weg für das hinter dem Schelfeis gelegene Gletschereis frei macht. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000192327/meterhoher-meeresanstieg-durch-abschmelzen-des-westantarktischen-eisschelfs
Studie: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01818-x
Mehr zur Studie: https://hypothes.is/search?q=tag%3A%27report%3A+Unavoidable+future+increase+in+West+Antarctic+ice-shelf+melting%27
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Der westantarktische Eisschild wird in diesem Jahrhundert dreimal schneller abschmelzen als im vergangenen, selbst wenn es gelingt, die globale Erhitzung auf 1,5 Grad zu begrenzen. Einer neuen Studie zufolge wurde einer der Kipppunkte, unterhalb derer das Klimasystem stabil bleibt, überschritten. Dadurch wird es zu einem so großen Anstieg des Meeresspiegels kommen, dass mehrere Küstenstädte aufgegeben werden müssen. Die Studie stützt sich nur auf eine einzige Modellierung, wird aber von den Ergebnissen anderer Untersuchungen ergänzt. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/23/rapid-ice-melt-in-west-antarctica-now-inevitable-research-shows
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- expert: Taimoor Sohail
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- process: glacier melting
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library.scholarcy.com library.scholarcy.com
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Victoria and Albert Museum and the Summer Palace Museum in Beijing.
shapes what people learn about China- imperial, exotic
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evelopment of a field of art history on China. The objects had various meanings, representing the British army, the humiliation of the Chinese emperor, and the global discourse on non-European curiosities. The sell-off of imperial art in East Asia was influenced by war and revolution. Recently, mainland Chinese companies intervened to repatriate some of the plundered objects.
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Michael Sheen returned OBE to air views on royal family<br /> by Kevin Rawlinson<br /> Tue 29 Dec 2020 11.41 EST<br /> https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/29/michael-sheen-gave-back-obe-to-air-views-on-royal-family
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Todo: Climate Reanalyzer
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- institution: NOAA
- expert: Ben Webber
- process: ocean warming
- expert: Simon Good
- institution: British Antarctic Survey
- expert: Mike Meredith
- expert: Mark Maslin
- process: ocean heating
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The attack did nothing to dimRussell’s reputation; he returned home, acquired more fame, amodest income, a mistress, and later an Italian countess for a wife,won a knighthood and was invited initially into a social circle thatincluded the Prince of Wales, though he fell out with them aftercomplaining privately about the depravity of some of the circle’smembers.
Even in William Howard Russell's day, the Prince of Wales kept some dodgy company.
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pressbooks.pub pressbooks.pub
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Villarreal, Allegra, ed. An Open Companion to Early British Literature: An Anthology and Guide. Pressbooks, 2019. https://pressbooks.pub/earlybritishlit/.
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Recommended Resource:
I recommend adding this doctoral research article on developing open education practices (OEP) in British Columbia, Canada. The scholarly article is released by Open University, a U.K. higher education institution that promotes open education.
Paskevicius, M. & Irvine, V. (2019). Open Education and Learning Design: Open Pedagogy in Praxis. Open University, 2019(1). DOI: 10.5334/jime.51
A relevant excerpt from the article reveals the study results that show OEP enhances student learning:
"Furthermore, participants reflected on how inviting learners to work in the open increased the level of risk and/or potential reward and thereby motivated greater investment in the work. This was articulated by Patricia who suggested “the stakes might feel higher when someone is creating something that’s going to be open and accessible by a wider community” as well as Alice who stated “students will write differently, you know, if they know it’s not just going to their professor.” The practice of encouraging learners to share their work was perceived by Olivia to “add more value to their work,” by showing learners the work they do at university can “have an audience beyond their professors.”"
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www.bl.uk www.bl.uk
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1478-1518, Notebook of Leonardo da Vinci (''The Codex Arundel''). A collection of papers written in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452, d. 1519), in his characteristic left-handed mirror-writing (reading from right to left), including diagrams, drawings and brief texts, covering a broad range of topics in science and art, as well as personal notes. The core of the notebook is a collection of materials that Leonardo describes as ''a collection without order, drawn from many papers, which I have copied here, hoping to arrange them later each in its place according to the subjects of which they treat'' (f. 1r), a collection he began in the house of Piero di Braccio Martelli in Florence, in 1508. To this notebook has subsequently been added a number of other loose papers containing writing and diagrams produced by Leonardo throughout his career. Decoration: Numerous diagrams.
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The Codex Arundel, named after a British collector, the Earl of Arundel, who acquired it early in the 17th century. Da Vinci composed the collection of hundreds of papers between 1478 and 1518 — that is, between the ages of 26 and 66 — the year before his death. The papers now reside in the British Library. The collection features his famous mirror-writing as well as diagrams, drawings and texts covering a range of topics in art and science.
Da Vinci composed a collection of hundreds of papers from 1478 and 1518 which are now bound in the Codex Arundel, named for the Earl of Arundel who acquired it in the 17th century.
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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Presidential Address at the Centenary Conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931.
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Dickson, C. (2021, November 30). B.C. identifies 1st case of omicron variant | CBC News. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/henry-dix-nov30-1.6267987
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thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk
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www.bccdc.ca www.bccdc.ca
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Getting a Vaccine. (n.d.). Retrieved 31 March 2022, from http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19/covid-19-vaccine/getting-a-vaccine#under12
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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Pagel, C. (2021, October 26). Why the UK was so vulnerable to another Covid outbreak. Prospect Magazine. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-technology/why-the-uk-was-so-vulnerable-to-another-covid-19-outbreak-coronavirus
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How the Far-Right Is Radicalizing Anti-Vaxxers. (n.d.). Retrieved December 2, 2021, from https://www.vice.com/en/article/88ggqa/how-the-far-right-is-radicalizing-anti-vaxxers
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Rhodes, E. (2021, September 10). “We need to flex our mental and emotional muscles outside the point of desperation” | The Psychologist. https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/we-need-flex-our-mental-and-emotional-muscles-outside-point-desperation
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I very much agree with you that the “American” practice of forcing punctuation inside a close quote is absurd.
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Reicher, S. (2021, October 28). Covid measures give us choice. They are not restrictions on British life. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/28/covid-measures-choice-restrictions-science-freedom-infections-safe
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Sawyer, E. (2021, October 14). Convenience, confidence and complacency: Why some formerly hesitant people are now getting vaccinated | CBC News. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/why-hesitant-people-now-getting-vaccinated-1.6210266
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Gurdasani, Deepti. ‘Vaccinating Adolescents in England: A Risk-Benefit Analysis’. OSF Preprints, 4 August 2021. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/grzma.
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News ·, C. B. C. (2021, October 1). B.C. expands mask mandate in schools to include kindergarten to Grade 3 after community outcry | CBC News. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-schools-masks-safety-plans-update-1.6196198
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Davies, A., Seaton, A., Tonooka, C., & White, J. (2021). Covid-19, online workshops, and the future of intellectual exchange. Rethinking History, 25(2), 224–241. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2021.1934290
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- Aug 2021
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www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/rum_babas_served_with_48561
Recipe for rum babas via Paul Hollywood from Season 5(?) Episode1 "Cakes" of The Great British Baking Show.
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inews.co.uk inews.co.uk
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Covid vaccine uptake has soared among minorities, but we can’t be complacent about hesitancy. (2021, April 25). Inews.Co.Uk. https://inews.co.uk/opinion/covid-vaccine-uptake-soared-minorities-cant-complacent-hesitancy-970503
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www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
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Vancouver Is the Anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital of North America. (n.d.). Retrieved May 12, 2021, from https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-vancouver-canada-asian-hate-crimes/?srnd=premium-canada
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simplicable.com simplicable.com
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British HumorDry humor is particularly associated with British humor. Fawlty Towers, a British television comedy that aired from 1975 to 1979 is considered an unusually good example of dry humor. The series is set in a family run seaside hotel operated by a cynical and snobbish man, played by John Cleese, who finds himself in constant conflict with hotel guests. No matter how outlandishly silly each episode becomes, there is never any sense that the characters are trying to be funny.
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www.covid-datascience.com www.covid-datascience.com
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Covid Data Science. (2021) ‘UK Variant B.1.1.7 becoming the dominant strain in the USA - what does it mean for Spring/Summer?’. Accessed 26 March 2021. https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/uk-variant-b-1-1-7-becoming-the-dominant-strain-in-the-usa-what-does-it-mean-for-spring-summer
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Volz, E., Mishra, S., Chand, M. et al. Assessing transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03470-x
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the Guardian. ‘How a String of Failures by the British Government Helped Covid-19 to Mutate | Anthony Costello’, 22 December 2020. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/22/uk-government-blamed-covid-19-mutation-occur.
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Greene, G. (1999). The Woman who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. University of Michigan Press.
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ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @AdamJKucharski: Alice Stewart on epidemiology (from: Https://t.co/mt3pAwCLXP) https://t.co/P5oI6k4HjG’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 2 March 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1341017627746050049
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journals.plos.org journals.plos.org
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Anderson, S. C., Edwards, A. M., Yerlanov, M., Mulberry, N., Stockdale, J. E., Iyaniwura, S. A., Falcao, R. C., Otterstatter, M. C., Irvine, M. A., Janjua, N. Z., Coombs, D., & Colijn, C. (2020). Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 control measures using a Bayesian model of physical distancing. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(12), e1008274. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008274
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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The Oxford English Dictionary says that the global network is usually "the internet", but most of the American historical sources it cites use the capitalized form.
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bestiary.ca bestiary.ca
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None known
Digital facsimiles: British Museum (visor)
[British Museum (static)] (https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8797&CollID=8&NStart=4751)
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Dodds, C., & Karlsen, S. (2020). Ethnicity and Covid-19: Standing on the shoulders of eugenics? [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/5gbrz
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Porter, C. (2020, June 5). The Top Doctor Who Aced the Coronavirus Test. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/world/canada/bonnie-henry-british-columbia-coronavirus.html
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- Jul 2020
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www.thelancet.com www.thelancet.com
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Cook, Marion. ‘Potential Factors Linked to High COVID-19 Death Rates in British Minority Ethnic Groups’. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 0, no. 0 (17 July 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30583-1.
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Services to UK Expats in Australia
If you're british expats in Australia and need good, reliable and credible cross border financial planning & UK expats tax advice, Alexander Beard Group can help you!
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Adams, R., Stewart, H., & Brooks, L. (2020, May 15). BMA backs teaching unions’ opposition to schools reopening. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/bma-backs-teaching-unions-in-opposing-reopening-of-schools
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Behind North America’s Lowest Death Rate: A Doctor Who Fought Ebola. (2020, May 16). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-16/a-virus-epicenter-that-wasn-t-how-one-region-stemmed-the-deaths
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Engagement, G. C. and P. (n.d.). BC’s Restart Plan. Province of British Columbia. Retrieved May 7, 2020, from https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/emergency-preparedness-response-recovery/covid-19-provincial-support/bc-restart-plan
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- Feb 2020
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niklasblog.com niklasblog.com
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The British National Corpus
Find it here.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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It is much harder to struggle against irrelevance than against exploitation
This is how the British could rule India for about 300 years
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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Thanks in large part to the massive popularity of “The Great British Baking Show,” Brits now, as Ptak herself has noted, have developed a taste for cakes beyond “stale sponges.”
Great British Baking Show changes society!
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“Including open in the list of examples for educational leadership is important because it brings it to the forefront. When I went up for promotion, I took a risk because engaging in open practice was not listed as an example of educational leadership, but not everyone is going to do that. Whereas if it’s strictly laid out it raises the profile for those who haven’t thought about open education and also shows that it is valued by the university as being a form of educational leadership,”
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Excerpt from the UBC Guide to Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Procedures (RPT): Evidence of educational leadership is required for tenure/promotion in the Educational Leadership stream… It can include, but is not limited to…Contributions to the practice and theory of teaching and learning literature, including publications in peer-reviewed and professional journals, conference publications, book chapters, textbooks and open education repositories / resources.
via this @SteelWagstaff Tweet, itself via this @_Mike_Collins slide.
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scalar.usc.edu scalar.usc.edu
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the slow collapse of public health and education, resurgent child poverty, the epidemic of loneliness, the collapse of ecosystems
It is the same as what we learnt before from British economy history. Under the rule of Mrs. Thatcher, through the destruction of labor movement and opening foreign competition to weak the forces of global trade. Inducing the heavy industry system, the large state-owned enterprises carry out radical privatization reform and other measures to complete the transformation of economic structure, So that the British from a traditional heavy industrial countries, into a service-oriented emerging economies. Mrs. Thatcher has focused on weakening public spending such as education, health care and social welfare, and she claims to "turn Britain from a society of interdependence to a self-sustaining society." Under her leadership, Britain has gradually become a country with relatively cheap labor and flexible labor. However, as it shows today, British people are facing an unreasonable high retirement age and suffering from dramatic social classes gap.
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ken-follett.com ken-follett.com
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This book is not about religion, although I talk about religion. It's about religious tolerance and the fight for human rights; the first battlefront in public discourse about human rights.
Freedom of religion was the first base upon which other understandings of freedom have been built upon.
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"Not knowing is an obstacle to my imagination" RE: his dedication to narratives that could have taken place within the political climate of the day.
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This is the story of 16th century Europe, and the political earthquake that was protestantism. The overarching historical narrative unfolds around the lives of fictional characters who might have lived in this historic period.
Follett's literary reenactment explores the intricacies of the Protestant Reformation through a cast of strategically diverse characters, whose stories span across multiple continents, nations, and cities. Each character is an important harbinger of larger historical trends. Within the masterfully established geo-political reality, each of their decisions serve to gradually reveal their distinct personalities and temperaments, belief systems and ideologies, and cultural identities.
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The real enemies, then as now, are not the rival religions. The true battle pitches those who believe in tolerance and compromise against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone else—no matter what the cost.
Reminiscent of our current geo-political climate. The extended cycles of history.
Tags
- Creativity
- Historic Retelling
- Human rights
- Annales School
- Religious tolerance
- History
- Religious reformation
- Catholicism
- History of religion
- Mary Tudor
- British Monarchy
- Virgin Queen
- Protestantism
- British History
- Tudor England
- England in the 1500s
- Historic Fiction
- European History
- religious freedom
- historical fiction
- Writing history
- Longue durée
- Identity
- History of political thought
- Tudors
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Ken Follett
- Mary Queen of Scots
- history
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- May 2016
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digital.ucd.ie digital.ucd.ie
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"Dublin Metropolitan Police Prisoner Books 1905-1918," The British GENES blog (2016-05-12) http://britishgenes.blogspot.ie/2016/05/dublin-metropolitan-police-prisoner.html
University College Dublin's Digital Library (http://digital.ucd.ie) has just uploaded digitised editions of four Dublin Metropolitan Police prisoners books from 1905-1908, and 1911-1918, at http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:43945.
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- Sep 2015
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II. Slavery and the Making of Race
Study Questions for this section:
What change occurs in the 1660s that dramatically affects the nature of slavery?
What was the Middle Passage?
How does the idea of race evolve with the evolution of slavery?
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III. Turmoil in Britain
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Nathan Cole, The Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole, 1761.
Study Question:
Do you think the scene that Cole describes is related or similar to more current day religious practice?
How does Cole come to see himself being “saved”? Is it related to a particular church or church authority? How might Cole’s experience be a threat to established church authorities?
In the 1730s and 1740s many rural folk rejected the enlightened and rational religion that came from the cosmopolitan pulpits and port cities of British North America. Instead, they were attracted to the evangelical religious movement that became known as the Great Awakening. The English Methodist George Whitefield and other itinerant ministers ignited this popular movement with their speaking tours of the colonies. In this account farmer Nathan Cole described hearing the news of Whitefield’s approach to his Connecticut town, as fields emptied and the populace converged: “I saw no man at work in his field, but all seemed to be gone. ” Like many others during the Great Awakening, Cole achieved an eventual conversion by focusing not on intellectual issues but on emotional experience. Cole took away an egalitarian message about the spiritual equality of all before God, a message that confronted established authorities.
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IV. Pursuing Political, Religious and Individual Freedom
Study Questions for this section:
What were the three different colonial political structures and how did they function?
How did the elected assemblies differ from Parliament in England?
How did changes in marriage, print and religion affect the colonists ideas about their obligations to authority?
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First Hand Accounts Case Study
Study Questions:
How do these descriptions of the “Middle Passage” from slave narratives confirm your understanding of the previous readings of this week?
How do these conditions lead to rebellion?
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Bacon’s Rebellion: The Declaration (1676)
How does Bacon's Declaration reflect both his distrust of Berkeley's rule and his desire to wage war against Native Americans? Why does Bacon want to wage this war?
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- Aug 2015
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Crown.
Study Questions:
How did Powhatan initially receive the colonists? Why?
How does tobacco change the colony?
How does the notion of race begin to change in the colony?
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Crown.
Study Questions:
How did Powhatan initially receive the colonists? Why?
How does tobacco change the colony?
How does the notion of race begin to change in the colony?
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New World.
Study Question:
What were the reasons that England entered in the competition for empire in the Americas?
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IV. English Colonization
Before reading this text watch and annotate the following video lecture for this week. Make sure you can answer the study questions that will appear within the video:
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New World
Study Question:
What was the "Black Legend" and how did other European powers use it to justify their attempts to compete with Spain for empire in the Americas?
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power.
Study Question:
How do the colonies attempt to remain independent from the religious and political turmoil in England during the 1600s?
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power.
Study Question:
How do the colonies attempt to remain independent from the religious and political turmoil in England during the 1600s?
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3. Spanish Exploration and Conquest
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In the eighteenth century, Edmund Burke argued that property stabilized society and prevented political and social turmoil that, he believed, would result from a purely meritocratic order. n8 Property served as a counterweight protecting the class of persons who possessed it against competition from nonpropertied people of natural ability and talent. To Burke, the French National Assembly -- dominated by upstart lawyers from the provinces -- exemplified the risk of disorder and inexperience of an unpropertied leadership. n9 In contrast, the British parliament, a proper mix of talented commoners and propertied Lords, ruled successfully.
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