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| x Climate change |
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Does flying cost the Earth? |
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. It can be a change in the average weather or a change in the distribution of weather events around an average ...
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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 the White Star Line and was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, in what is now Northern Ireland. At the time of her construction, she was the largest passenger steamship...
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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 engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship,...
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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, esp. heavier-than-air aircraft.
Many cultures have built devices that travel through the air, from the earliest projectiles such as stones and spears., the boomerang in...
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| x James Bond |
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Bond, James Bond |
British Navy Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR is a fictional character created by novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. 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...
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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. Shooting was completed in August 2004 and the movie was released on April 28, 2005 in the United Kingdom, Australia and New...
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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 (1.12 microjoules) per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574...
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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 used in the manufacture of industrial products. Plastics are typically polymers of high molecular mass, and may contain other...
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| x Bakelite |
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Plasticity - 100 years of making plastics |
Bakelite (pronounced /ˈbеɪkɨlaɪt/), 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 filler. It...
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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 are the first drugs that were effective against many previously serious diseases...
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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 origin of video games lies in early cathode ray tube-based missile defense systems in the late 1940s. These programs were later adapted into other simple games during the 1950s. By the late 1950s and through the 1960s, more computer games were...
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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. Nevertheless, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that involves other disciplines such as psychology, computer...
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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. The word "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("outside", "outwards") and terrestris ("earthly", "of or relating to the Earth"). The existence of such...
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| x Pixar |
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Pixar: 20 Years of Animation |
Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI animation production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. To date, the studio has earned twenty-four Academy Awards, six Golden Globes, and three Grammys, among many other awards,...
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| x Iceland |
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Pure Iceland |
Iceland ( /ˈaɪslənd/ (help·info)) (Icelandic: Ísland (names of Iceland); IPA: [ˈislant]) is a European island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean. It has a population of about 320,000 and a total area of 103,000 km (39,769 sq mi). Its...
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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. The Spitfire continued to be used into the 1950s both as a front line fighter and 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). The trilogy is based on the three-volume book The Lord of the Rings by J...
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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, and since February 2007 a part of Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A. The company was owned by Italian state...
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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...
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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. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity,...
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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 can be caused by the MMR vaccine, a vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella. The scientific consensus is that no credible evidence links the vaccine to autism, and that the vaccine's...
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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).
The vaccine is a mixture of three live attenuated viruses, administered via injection. The shot is generally administered to children around the...
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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.
The...
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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 controlling of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller in at least one dimension, and involves...
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| x Psychology |
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Mind your Head? 100 years of Psychology in Britain |
Psychology (lit. "study of the soul" or "study of the mind") is an academic and applied discipline which involves the scientific study of human (or animal) mental functions and behaviors. In this field, a professional practitioner or researcher is...
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| x Mathematics |
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Mathematics |
Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.
There is debate over whether...
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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 from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transport had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions starting in the United Kingdom, then...
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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 |
In physics and thermodynamics, heat is the process of energy transfer from one body or system due to thermal contact, which in turn is defined as an energy transfer to a body in any other way than due to work performed on the body.
A related term is...
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| x Temperature |
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Heat and Temperature |
Temperature is a measure of the average energy of motion, or kinetic energy, of particles in matter. When particles of matter, whether in solids, liquids, gases, or elementary plasmas, move faster or have greater mass, they carry more kinetic energy...
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| x Health care |
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Health Matters |
Health care, or healthcare, is the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical sciences (in vitro diagnostics),...
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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 is the production of food and goods through farming. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of human civilization, with the husbandry of domesticated animals and plants (i.e. crops) creating food surpluses that enabled...
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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 generating lift, propulsive thrust or aerostatically using buoyancy, or by simple ballistic movement....
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| x Space exploration |
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Exploring Space |
"Space Exploration" is the use of astronomy and 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,...
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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 improving 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 science...
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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 |
Architecture (Latin „architectura“, from the Greek „arkitekton“, ὰρχιτεκτονική – arkhitektonike, from ὰρχι chief or leader and Τεκτονική builder or carpenter) is the art and science of designing buildings and other physical structures.
Architecture...
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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 Huangdi (Chinese: 秦始皇; pinyin: Qín Shǐhuáng; Wade-Giles: Ch'in Shih-huang; IPA: [tɕʰin ʂɨxu̯ɑŋ]) (259 BC – 210 BC), personal name Ying Zheng (Chinese: 嬴政; pinyin: Yíng Zhèng), was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 246 BC to 221 BC during...
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| x Terracotta Army |
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The First Emperor |
The Terracotta Army (simplified Chinese: 兵马俑; traditional Chinese: 兵馬俑; pinyin: bīngmǎ yǒng; literally "soldier and horse funerary statues") is 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 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, mycologist and conservationist best known for children's books featuring anthropomorphic characters such as in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Born into a...
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| Beatrix Potter: Recent Discoveries | |||
