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Researchers shed light on why and how Stonehenge was built
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/researchers-shed-light-on-why-and-how-stonehenge-was-built
Excavation of two quarries in Wales by a team of archaeologists and geologists - including Dr Rob Ixer, a researcher with the Department of Geology - has confirmed they are sources of Stonehenge’s ‘bluestones’, shedding light on how they were quarried...
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Semantic Web
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/co7216
Module code: CO7216 The web was originally designed with a goal to support not only human-human communication but also as one that would enable automated machine processing of data with minimal human intervention.
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Peace project
https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/peace-project
University of Leicester is giving local schools and the local community the opportunity to visit its historic campus and discover the history of the University.
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Preserving the grave
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/preserving-the-grave
One problem faced by the team was, how best to preserve the grave for posterity. Under normal circumstances, the best protection is to carefully cover the archaeology with a protective membrane and rebury it.
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jbridges: Page 20
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/author/jbridges/page/20/
This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards...I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions.
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Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs2346
Module code:HS2346 This module explores US history from the final years of slavery through the Civil War and Reconstruction in the mid-19th century.
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Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs2346
Module code:HS2346 This module explores US history from the final years of slavery through the Civil War and Reconstruction in the mid-19th century.
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Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2346
Module code:HS2346 This module explores US history from the final years of slavery through the Civil War and Reconstruction in the mid-19th century.
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Dismemberment in Prehistory – Not Just for the Criminally Insane. By Shane McCorristine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/11/23/shane-mccorristine-dismemberment-in-prehistory-not-just-for-the-criminally-insane/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on November 23, 2015 Francisco Goya, “Great deeds! Against the dead!” (1810s). Source: Wikimedia Commons. For as long as humans have been around we have cut up, hacked, butchered, and mutilated corpses.
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A Trip to Oxford – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/07/23/oxfordtrip/
On the trail of Evelyn Waugh’s contributions to the Oxford University magazine 'The Isis'