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The Age of Augustus
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ah2023
Module code: AH2023 How was Rome transformed under Augustus, the first emperor? Was Augustus’ rule a Roman Golden Age, or a totalitarian tyranny? What can poetry, architecture and religious ritual tell us about this period? Under Augustus (31 BC – 14 AD), Rome...
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The Age of Augustus
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ah2023
Module code: AH2023 How was Rome transformed under Augustus, the first emperor? Was Augustus’ rule a Roman Golden Age, or a totalitarian tyranny? What can poetry, architecture and religious ritual tell us about this period? Under Augustus (31 BC – 14 AD), Rome...
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Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting-corpses-haunted-public-of-the-eighteenth-century
Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.
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Phage film receives UK debut at University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/salt-in-my-soul-screening
Diane Shader Smith, an author in her own right and editor of Mallory’s posthumous book Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life which inspired the film, said: “Mallory didn’t have to die. We call it a preventable tragedy.
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jbridges: Page 22
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/author/jbridges/page/22/
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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The Sedimentary World
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gl1017
Module code: GL1017 This module starts with the basics: where sediment comes from, how it is moved, and the processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks.
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Physics students take off
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/07-norway-space-students
David Jessop, Jamie Macquillin and Lewis Jackson were selected for the trip alongside 20 other students from across Europe.
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Silence at the University of Tokyo
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/silence-at-the-university-of-tokyo
Dr Jim King from the School of Education will be giving a talk to the Tokyo Discourse Group at the University of Tokyo’s Hongo Campus from 18.30 to 20.00 on Thursday 21 April.
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Monday 3rd December Sol 116
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/12/03/monday-3rd-december-sol-116/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 3, 2012 Some of the early results from Curiosity are being presented this week at the American Geophysical Union.
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Phage biology
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/bacteriophages/phage-biology
Phage biology is the study of all aspects of bacteriophages (phages). Martha Clokie and colleagues have specifically worked with bacteriophages that target Clostridium difficile. Bacteriophage are studied with respect to therapy and diagnosis.