Global Studies Seminar Series | Dr Erin Wilson
The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol establish important criteria and guidelines for providing protection for individuals experiencing persecution. Yet since its inception, the Convention has been criticised on a number of levels. Recent criticism has focused particularly on the narrow scope of the Convention definition of who qualifies as a refugee, particularly in light of changing global circumstances that are driving more and more people to flee their
Download Seasons One AND Two Today - All 100 Lessons - One Low Price Hi everybody, my name's Mike and this is the Let's Speak Italian podcast. So you've been listening to the first few lessons, and hopefully you're learning how to speak Italian. Well with the first 100 lessons completed, I wanted to release the first few lessons for free as a little teaser so that you can see just how easy it is to learn to speak Italian. Now, by going to the website, you can buy the first 100 lessons for only $15.00. That includes 100 lessons, plus 20 review lessons as
1 Introducing cosmology
‘This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.’ (T.S. Eliot) But how about the way the world begins? Was this the biggest bang of all? This unit will introduce you to the theory of the Big Bang and will present the three main lines of experimental evidence that support this theory.
LXIX - A - PART III - PENSUM UNDESEPTUAGESIMUM
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Promo - One Minute Luxembourgish
Moien - hello! My name is Julie and I'd like to welcome you to One Minute Luxembourgish from the Radio Lingua Network. In this podcast I'm going to be teaching you the basics of Luxembourgish. The great thing about this language course is that you'll be learning all you need to know in just 60 seconds - or thereabouts! Each one-minute language lesson will equip you with just enough Luxembourgish to help you get by in lots of situations, either on holiday, or on a business trip to Luxembourg. One
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Lesson 23 - Nouns and Gender
Today we'll talk about nouns and genders. Keep in mind that we are going to look only at singular nouns in nominative case (more on the 6 noun cases later).
As you know, a noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, event or idea. All Russian nouns are divided into 3 genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. It's important to know the gender of a noun, since it needs to agree with other parts of speech. Let me give you an example: краÑив
Lesson 27 – Coffee Break Spanish
This week Mark and Kara look at dealing with banks and services while travelling. This lesson brings learners to a crucial stage in their language-learning as it concentrates on reusing already learned material and changing individual words in order to expand vocabulary and range of expression.Â
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Lesson 41 – Coffee Break Spanish
Lesson 41 introduces level 2 of Coffee Break Spanish. In level 1 we concentrated on learning useful words and phrases for a whole range of situations you’re likely to encounter on a trip to a Spanish-speaking part of the world. However, to a certain extent we’ve been concentrating on set phrases. In level 2 it’s [...]
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074 - BELLUM HELVETICUM - LOWE BUTLER WALKER
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The History of Gargoyles
MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids travels  to Salvadori Center for Architecture  in New York City. Our young host leans learn about the history of gargoyles in architecture.
Moodle Presentation
This video is a brief presentation of Moodle, an open source learning management system. It explains what Moodle is and how it can be used. Is is mainly a slide presentation with background music.  (2:46)
006 CANNON'S CAESAR
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Biblia Sacra Castellionis Gen Cap 001
Sebastian Castellio re-wrote the Bible in Classical Latin, as an aid to teaching Latin, sometime during the 1540's.
You can find out more about this important humanist here:
http://www.socinian.org/castellio.html
Between the Lions: Cliff Hanger & the Tricky Pixie We are proud to present "Cliff Hanger & Trixie the Tricky Pixie," a “short i†filled episode with a very tricky surprise ending. "A surprise ending!" you exclaim. Find out and learn about the “short i†this episode.  Some words in the video are shown printed out on the screen, this would be good for early readers. Video describes words with the “short i.â€Â Video is good for students learning or reviewing the â€
006 CAESAR BILINGUAL BELLO GALLICO
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Entozoorum, sive, Vermium intestinalium: historia naturalis - Carolo Rudolphi
Praefatio from Entozoorum 1810.
Here is the link in Google
http://books.google.com/books?id=XQ4AAAAAQAAJ
The author describes his field ( intestinal parasites) in this reading from the introduction to his text. Latin was still used in many Botanical texts until the end of the 1800's.
