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| x Climate change |
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Does flying cost the Earth? |
Climate change is any long-term change in the patterns of average weather of a specific region or the Earth as a whole. Climate change reflects abnormal variations to the Earth's climate and subsequent effects on other parts of the Earth, such as in...
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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 Artefact Exhibition |
The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by British shipping company White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom. For her time, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world.
On the...
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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) (pronounced /ˈɪzəmbɑrd ˈkɪŋdəm bruːˈnɛl/), was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, including the first...
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| x Aviation |
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Does flying cost the Earth? |
Aviation refers to activities involving man-made flying devices (aircraft), including the people, organizations, and regulatory bodies involved with them.
Many cultures have built devices that travel through the air, from the earliest projectiles...
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| x James Bond |
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Bond, James Bond |
Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR is a fictional character created by novelist Ian Fleming in 1952. He is the protagonist of the James Bond series of novels, films, comics and video games. He is portrayed as an SIS agent residing in London. From 1995...
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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 science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. This movie got a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes of 60%. Shooting was completed in August 2004 and the movie was released on...
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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, intended to collide opposing particle beams, of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus....
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| x Science on Screen | Films of Fact | ||
| x Dan Dare |
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Dan Dare & the Birth of Hi-tech Britain |
Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson. Hampson not only invented Dan Dare and his entire world, he also put together the original team of artists and wrote the first two stories. Dan Dare appeared in...
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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 |
Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic organic amorphous solid materials suitable for the manufacture of industrial products. Plastics are typically polymers of high molecular weight, and may contain other...
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| x Bakelite |
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Plasticity - 100 years of making plastics |
Bakelite (pronounced /ˈbеɪkɨlaɪt/) is a material based on the thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, developed in 1907–1909 by Belgian Dr. Leo Baekeland. Formed by the reaction under heat and pressure of phenol...
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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. Penicillin antibiotics are historically significant because they were the first drugs that were effective against many previously serious...
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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 |
Video games were introduced as a commercial entertainment medium in 1971, becoming the basis for a new entertainment industry in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the United States, Japan, and Europe. After a disastrous industry collapse in 1983 and a...
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| x Neuroscience |
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NEURObotics... the future of thinking? |
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Such studies span the structure, function, evolutionary history, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, informatics, computational neuroscience and pathology of the...
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| x Extraterrestrial life in popular culture |
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The Science of Aliens |
In popular cultures, life forms —especially intelligent life forms— that are of extraterrestrial origin, i.e. not coming from the Earth are referred to collectively as aliens.
This usage is anthropocentric; the term is used to refer to non-human...
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| x Extraterrestrial life |
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The Science of Aliens |
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life which does not originate from planet Earth. It is the subject of astrobiology and its existence remains hypothetical since to date no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life has been discovered which has...
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| x Pixar |
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Pixar: 20 Years of Animation |
Pixar Animation Studios is a CGI animation production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. To date, the studio has earned twenty-two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, and three Grammys, among many other awards, acknowledgments...
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| x Iceland |
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Pure Iceland |
The Republic of Iceland ( /ˈaɪslənd/ (help·info)) (Icelandic: Ísland or Lýðveldið Ísland (names of Iceland); IPA: [ˈislant]), is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean. It has a population of about 320,000 and a total area of 103,000...
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| x Supermarine Spitfire |
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Inside the Spitfire |
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries through the Second World War and on into the 1950s as a front line fighter and in secondary roles. It was produced in...
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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 film trilogy consists of three live action fantasy epic films: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003) (often abbreviated to LotR for the trilogy, and FotR, TTT, and RotK for...
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| x Young British Artists |
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Sensation exhibition |
Young British Artists or YBAs (also Brit artists and Britart) is the name given to a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the United Kingdom, most (though not all) of whom attended Goldsmiths College in...
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| x Alfa Romeo |
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Alfa Romeo Sustaining Beauty |
Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automaker founded on June 24, 1910 in Milan. Alfa Romeo has been a part of the Fiat Group since 1986. The company was originally known as A.L.F.A., which is an acronym for Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica...
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| x Year 2000 problem | 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 notable computer bug resulting from the practice in early computer program design of representing the year with two digits. This time code...
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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...
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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 (also called sameness) is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable, in terms of possessing a set of qualities or characteristics that distinguish it from entities of a different type. Or, in layman's terms,...
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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 heredity and variation in living organisms. The fact that living things inherit traits from their...
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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 future time and a given location. Human beings have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia, and formally since at least...
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| x Weather |
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Weather |
Weather is a set of all the phenomena occurring in a given atmosphere at a given time. Weather phenomena lie in the troposphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the...
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| x The history of veterinary science | Veterinary History | ||
| x MMR vaccine controversy | The MMR Files |
The MMR vaccine controversy refers to claims that autism is caused by the MMR vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella. The scientific consensus is that no credible scientific evidence links the vaccine to autism, and that the vaccine's benefits...
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| x MMR vaccine |
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The MMR Files |
The MMR vaccine is a mixture of three live attenuated viruses, administered via injection for immunization against measles, mumps and rubella (also called German measles). It is generally administered to children around the age of one year, with a...
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| x Ergonomics |
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The Human Factor |
Ergonomics is the science of designing the job, equipment, and workplace to fit the worker. Proper ergonomic design is necessary to prevent repetitive strain injuries, which can develop over time and can lead to long-term disability.
Ergonomics is...
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| x Shipping |
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Shipping |
Shipping has multiple meanings. It can be a physical process of transporting 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 truck. In Air and Sea...
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| x Nanotechnology |
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Nanotechnology: small science, big deal |
Nanotechnology, shortened to "Nanotech", is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices...
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| x Psychology |
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Mind your Head? 100 years of Psychology in Britain |
Psychology (Greek: Ψυχολογία, lit. "study of the mind", from ψυχή psykhē "breath, spirit, soul"; and -λογία, -logia "study of") is an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic, and often scientific, study of human mental functions and...
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| x Mathematics |
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Mathematics |
Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, relation, change, and various topics of pattern, form and entity. Mathematicians seek out patterns and other quantitative dimensions, whether dealing with numbers, spaces, natural science,...
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| x Marine engineering | Marine Engineering |
Marine Engineering involves the design, construction, installation, operation and support of the systems and equipment which propel and control marine vehicles, and of the systems which make a vehicle or structure habitable for crew, passengers and...
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| x Industrial Revolution |
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Making the Modern World |
The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain. The changes...
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| Energy Hall | |||
| x Physics |
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Launchpad |
Physics covers the AB portion of the Advanced Placement exam. It contains animations, text review and problem sets.
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| x Heat |
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Heat and Temperature |
A related term is thermal energy, loosely defined as the energy of a body that increases with its temperature. Heat is also loosely referred to as thermal energy, although many definitions require this thermal energy to actually be in the process of...
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| x Temperature |
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Heat and Temperature |
In physics, temperature is a physical property of a system that underlies the common notions of hot and cold; something that feels hotter generally has the higher temperature. Temperature is one of the principal parameters of thermodynamics. If no...
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| x Health care |
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Health Matters |
Health care, or healthcare, refers to the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, pharmaceutical, clinical laboratory sciences (in vitro diagnostics), nursing, and allied...
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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, adverse astral influence, or the will of the gods. These ideas still retain some...
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| x Geophysics |
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Geophysics and Oceanography |
Geophysics, a major discipline of the Earth sciences and a subdiscipline of physics, is the study of the whole Earth by the quantitative observation of its physical properties. Geophysical data are used in academics to observe tectonic plate motions...
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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 | Agriculture |
Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the husbandry of domesticated animals and plants (i.e. crops) creating food surpluses...
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| x Food |
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Food for Thought |
The food industry is the complex, global collective of diverse businesses that together supply much of the food energy consumed by the world population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, can be considered outside of the...
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| x Flight |
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Flight |
Flight is the process by which an object moves either through the air, or movement beyond earth's atmosphere (as in the case of spaceflight), by aerodynamically generating lift, propulsive thrust or aerostatically using buoyancy, or by simple...
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| x Space exploration |
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Exploring Space |
Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space. Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft. While the observation of objects in space—known as astronomy—pre...
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| x Mobile phone recycling | Dead Ringers? | ||
| x Computing |
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Computing |
Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and developing computer technology, computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the...
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| x Materials Science |
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Challenge of Materials |
Materials science or materials engineering is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering. This science investigates the relationship between the structure of...
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| x Architecture |
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Building to the limits |
The term architecture (from Greek word ἀρχιτεκτονική - arkhitektonike) can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.
As a process, architecture activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures primarily to...
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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 (Chinese: 秦始皇; pinyin: Qín Shǐhuáng; Wade-Giles: Ch'in Shih-huang) (259 BCE – 210 BCE), personal name Ying Zheng (Chinese: 嬴政; pinyin: Yíng Zhèng), was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 246 BCE to 221 BCE during the Warring States...
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| x Terracotta Army |
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The First Emperor |
The Terracotta Army (traditional Chinese: 兵馬俑; simplified Chinese: 兵马俑; pinyin: bīngmǎ yǒng; literally "soldier and horse funerary statues") are the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China. The terracotta figures,...
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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 for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.
Lear was born into a middle-class...
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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, mycologist and conservationist who was best known for her many best-selling children's books that featured animal characters, such as Peter Rabbit.
Born into...
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| Beatrix Potter: Recent Discoveries | |||
