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| x Climate change |
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Does flying cost the Earth? |
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around...
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| Can algae save the world? | |||
| The Science Of Survival | |||
| Energy: fuelling the future | |||
| Climate Change: the Burning Issue | |||
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| x RMS Titanic |
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Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition |
RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in...
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| Titanic - A Southampton Story | |||
| x Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel: fame and fate |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English civil engineer who built bridges and dockyards including the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; a series of steamships,...
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| x Aviation |
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Does flying cost the Earth? |
Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.
Many cultures have built devices that travel through the air, from the...
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| x James Bond | Bond, James Bond |
Royal Navy Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR is a fictional character created by British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the main protagonist of the James Bond series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve...
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| For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond | |||
| x The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Exhibition |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 2005 British-American comic science fiction film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. It stars Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel and the voices of Stephen Fry (the guide...
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| x Large Hadron Collider |
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Big Bang! |
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) from 1998 to 2008, with the aim of allowing physicists to test the predictions of...
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| x Science on Screen | Films of Fact | ||
| x Dan Dare | Dan Dare & the Birth of Hi-tech Britain |
Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories, that is, the Venus and Red Moon stories, and a complete storyline for Operation Saturn. Dare appeared in the Eagle comic story...
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| x Grace Weir | Grace Weir - In my own time | ||
| x Plastic |
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Plasticity - 100 years of making plastics |
A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids that are moldable. Plastics are typically organic polymers of high molecular mass, but they often contain other substances. They are usually synthetic, most...
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| x Bakelite |
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Plasticity - 100 years of making plastics |
Bakelite ( /ˈbeɪkɨlaɪt/ US dict: bāk′(ə)līt), or polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, is an early plastic. It is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from an elimination reaction of phenol with formaldehyde, usually with a wood flour...
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| x Penicillin |
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Penicillin: A story of triumph and tragedy |
Penicillin (sometimes abbreviated PCN or pen) is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. They include penicillin G, procaine penicillin, benzathine penicillin, and penicillin V. Penicillin antibiotics are historically significant...
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| x Maurice Broomfield | Maurice Broomfield's 'New Look' at Industry: photographs from post-war Britain | ||
| x History of computer and video games |
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Game On |
The history of video games goes as far back as the 1940s, when in 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a "cathode ray tube amusement device." Video gaming would not...
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| x Neuroscience |
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NEURObotics... the future of thinking? |
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer...
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| x Extraterrestrial life in popular culture |
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The Science of Aliens |
In popular cultures, "extraterrestrials" are life forms — especially intelligent life forms— that are of extraterrestrial origin (often also called "aliens").
Cosmic pluralism, the assumption that there are many inhabited worlds beyond the human...
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| x Extraterrestrial life |
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The Science of Aliens |
Extraterrestrial life (from the Latin words: extra ["beyond", or "not of"] and terrestris ["of or belonging to Earth"]) is defined as life that does not originate from Earth. Referred to as alien life, or simply aliens (or space aliens, to...
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| x Pixar |
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Pixar: 20 Years of Animation |
Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced /ˈpɪksɑr/, is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and...
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| x Iceland |
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Pure Iceland |
Iceland /ˈaɪslənd/ (Icelandic: Ísland, IPA: [ˈislant]) is a Nordic European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The country has a population of about 320,000 and a total area of 103,000 km (40,000 sq mi). The...
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| x Supermarine Spitfire |
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Inside the Spitfire |
The Supermarine Spitfire was a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries throughout the Second World War. The Spitfire continued to be used as a front line fighter and in secondary...
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| x The Lord of the Rings film trilogy |
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The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy: The Exhibition |
The Lord of the Rings is an epic film trilogy consisting of three fantasy adventure films based on the three-volume book of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are, by subtitle, The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two...
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| x Young British Artists |
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Sensation exhibition |
The Young British Artists, or YBAs — also referred to as Brit artists and Britart — is the name given to a loose group of visual artists who first began to exhibit together in London, in 1988. Many of the artists graduated from the BA Fine Art...
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| x Alfa Romeo |
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Alfa Romeo Sustaining Beauty |
Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. (Italian pronunciation: [ˈalfa roˈmɛːo]) is an Italian manufacturer of cars. Founded as A.L.F.A. on June 24, 1910, in Milan, the company has been involved in car racing since 1911, and has a reputation for building...
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| x Year 2000 problem |
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millennium bug: all or nothing? |
The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or simply Y2K) was a problem for both digital (computer-related) and non-digital documentation and data storage situations which resulted from the practice of...
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| x Leonardo da Vinci |
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The Art of Invention |
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been...
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| Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection | |||
| Leonardo da Vinci : Experience, Experiment and Design | |||
| Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman | |||
| Leonardo's Last Supper: Before and After | |||
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| x Identity | Who Am I? |
In philosophy, identity, from Latin: identitas (“sameness”), is the relation each thing bears just to itself. The notion of identity gives rise to many philosophical problems, including the identity of indiscernibles (if x and y share all their...
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| x Genetics |
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Who Am I? |
Genetics (from Ancient Greek γενετικός genetikos, "genitive" and that from γένεσις genesis, "origin"), a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms.
Genetics deals with the molecular structure and...
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| x Weather forecasting |
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Weather |
Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location. Human beings have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia, and formally since the nineteenth century....
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| x Weather |
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Weather |
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day...
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| x The history of veterinary science | Veterinary History | ||
| x MMR vaccine controversy | The MMR Files |
The MMR vaccine controversy was a case of scientific misconduct which triggered a health scare. It followed the publication in 1998 of a paper in the medical journal The Lancet which presented apparent evidence that autism spectrum disorders could...
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| x MMR vaccine |
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The MMR Files |
The MMR vaccine is an immunization shot against measles, mumps, and rubella (also called German measles). It was first developed by Maurice Hilleman while at Merck in the late 1960s.
The vaccine is a mixture of three live attenuated viruses,...
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| x Ergonomics |
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The Human Factor |
Ergonomics is the study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body, its movements, and its cognitive abilities.
The International Ergonomics Association defines ergonomics as follows:
Ergonomics is employed to fulfill the two goals...
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| x Shipping |
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Shipping |
Shipping has multiple meanings. It can be a physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo, by land, air, and sea. It also can describe the movement of objects by ship.
Land or "ground" shipping can be by train or by...
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| x Nanotechnology |
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Nanotechnology: small science, big deal |
Nanotechnology (sometimes shortened to "nanotech") is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized...
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| x Psychology |
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Mind your Head? 100 years of Psychology in Britain |
Psychology is the study of the mind, occurring partly via the study of behavior. Grounded in scientific method, psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching...
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| x Mathematics |
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Mathematics |
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”) is the study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures...
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| x Marine engineering | Marine Engineering |
In maritime transportation, the engine department or engineering department is an organizational unit aboard a ship that is responsible for the operating the propulsion systems and the support systems for crew, passengers and cargo. This work is...
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| x Industrial Revolution |
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Making the Modern World |
The Industrial Revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times. It began in the United...
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| Energy Hall | |||
| x Physics |
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Launchpad |
Physics (from Greek: φύσις physis "nature") is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted...
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| x Heat |
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Heat and Temperature |
Heat is energy transferred from one system to another by thermal interaction. In contrast to work, heat is always accompanied by a transfer of entropy. Heat flow is characteristic of macroscopic objects and systems, but its origin and properties can...
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| x Temperature |
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Heat and Temperature |
Temperature is a physical property of matter that quantitatively expresses the common notions of hot and cold. Objects of low temperature are cold, while various degrees of higher temperatures are referred to as warm or hot. Heat spontaneously flows...
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| x Health care |
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Health Matters |
Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing,...
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| x History of medicine |
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Glimpses of Medical History |
All human societies have medical beliefs that provide explanations for birth, death, and disease. Throughout history, illness has been attributed to witchcraft, demons, astral influence, or the will of thegods. These ideas still retain some power,...
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| x Geophysics |
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Geophysics and Oceanography |
Geophysics ( /dʒiːoʊfɪzɪks/) is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its...
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| x Oceanography |
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Geophysics and Oceanography |
Oceanography (compound of the Greek words ωκεανός meaning "ocean" and γράφω meaning "to write"), also called oceanology or marine science, is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean. It covers a wide range of topics, including marine...
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| x Agriculture |
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Agriculture |
Agriculture (also called farming or husbandry) is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human...
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| x Food |
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Food for Thought |
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an...
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| x Flight |
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Flight |
Flight is the process by which an object moves, through an atmosphere (especially the air) or beyond it (as in the case of spaceflight), by generating aerodynamic lift, propulsive thrust, aerostatically using buoyancy, or by ballistic movement,...
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| x Space exploration |
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Exploring Space |
Space exploration is the discovery and exploration of outer space by means of space technology. Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft.
While the observation of objects in space, known as...
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| x Mobile phone recycling | Dead Ringers? | ||
| x Computing |
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Computing |
Computing is the activity of using computer hardware and software.
Computing Curricula 2005 defined "computing" as:
"In a general way, we can define computing to mean any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers. Thus...
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| x Materials Science |
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Challenge of Materials |
Materials science is an interdisciplinary field applying the properties of matter to various areas of science and engineering. This scientific field investigates the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and...
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| x Architecture |
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Building to the limits |
Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form...
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| Brit Insurance Designs of the Year | |||
| Underground: London’s Hidden Infrastructure | |||
| Spans: Viaducts, Bridges and Walkways | |||
| Solos: Tulou/Affordable Housing for China | |||
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| x Contemporary science | Antenna | ||
| x Qin Shi Huang |
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The First Emperor |
Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇) (259 BC – 210 BC), personal name Ying Zheng (嬴政), was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 246 BC to 221 BC during the Warring States Period. He became the first emperor of a unified China in 221 BC. He ruled until his death in...
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| x Terracotta Army |
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The First Emperor |
The Terracotta Army or the "Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses", is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC and whose...
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| x Edward Lear |
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Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear |
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.
Lear was born into a...
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| x Beatrix Potter |
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Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear |
Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which...
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| Beatrix Potter: Recent Discoveries | |||
