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New Centenary film celebrates Leicester research heroes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/century-change
The University of Leicester has premiered a new short film, celebrating 100 years of changing the world. Research experts from the University’s first Century feature in the film, produced to mark Leicester’s Centenary year.
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New University film, 'Revisiting the Harms of Hate', available now
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/revisiting-harms-hate-film
The sequel to a celebrated short film, produced by the University of Leicester, exploring the impact of hate crime is now available to watch.
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Special comedy event and animated film in honour of playwright and provocateur Joe Orton
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/special-comedy-event-and-animated-film-in-honour-of-playwright-and-provocateur-joe-orton
To mark 50 years since the death of Joe Orton, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Chris Shepherd is collaborating with Dr Emma Parker from our School of Arts on an Arts Council-funded project inspired by prank letters of complaint that Orton penned using the pseudonym Mrs Edna Welthorpe.
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1st August 2015 Sol 1060
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/08/01/1st-august-2015-sol-1060/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 1, 2015 Successful drilling at Buckskin! Like the other drill holes this is showing how thin red Mars is.
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2nd January 2016 Sol 1211
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/01/02/2nd-january-2016-sol-1211/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 2, 2016 This HiRISE image taken from Mars Reconaissance Orbiter shows Curiosity in its current position at the margin of the steep slope of the Bagnold dunes.
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15th June 2013 Sol 305
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/06/15/15th-june-2013-sol-5/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 15, 2013 This is a NavCam image showing that we have successfully placed the robotic arm turret against this Point Lake outcrop in order to get MAHLI imagery and an APXS analysis.
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29th July 2016 Sol 1415
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/07/29/29th-july-2016-sol-1415/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 29, 2016 We are getting some fantastic views of Murray Buttes, with Mt Sharp in the background.The Murray mudstone forms the low ground around the buttes.
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Locating the choir within the church
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/locating-the-choir
A small area above the human remains in Trench 1 was carefully widened with a digger to give archaeologists better access to the burial. Jo Appleby and Turi King began to carefully remove the grave soil by hand. Work was slow, to avoid damage to the skeleton.
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Solar System samples touch down in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/winchcombe-hayabusa2
Samples from other worlds have touched down in Leicester, to be analysed by space scientists studying the building blocks of our Solar System.
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Dartmoor dig uncovers 'stunning' Early Bronze Age burial cist
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/dartmoor-cist
University of Leicester's Dr Laura Basell is working with Dartmoor National Park to analyse a newly discovered Bronze Age cist.