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The Story of Pulque, Part 1
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/10/the-story-of-pulque-part-1/
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on March 10, 2015 In the 17th century, the Mexican historian Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl recorded a pre-Columbian legend about the origins of pulque.
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Willis from Tunis: An Interview with Cartoonist Nadia Khiari
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/01/11/willis-from-tunis-interview-cartoonist-nadia-khiari/
Political cartoonist Willis from Tunis (Tunesia) is interviewed by Shout Out UK Young Writer Laura Brick.
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Queering Islam: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Derby Local Studies Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/12/15/derby-local-studies-library/
A page that describes the collections from Derby Local Studies Library that the UOSH Midlands Hub preserved.
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Hot hot hot, above the Great Red Spot
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/07/28/hot-hot-hot-above-the-great-red-spot/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on July 28, 2016 One of the largest remaining questions in understanding the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, the outmost layer of the atmosphere, is: ‘Why is this region so very hot?’.
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Glimpses of the young David Attenborough in the University Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/05/09/glimpses-of-the-young-david-attenborough-in-the-university-archives/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 9, 2016 It’s well known that David and Richard Attenborough, along with their brother John, spent part of their early lives living on the campus of what was then University College, Leicester.
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Support for students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD)
https://le.ac.uk/accessability/support/spld-support
Support for students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) at University of Leicester
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Evidencing Senior Leader Praxis
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mn7716
Module code: MN7716 This apprentice-centred module runs throughout the Senior leader Apprenticeship / Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration programme and is designed to help you build the evidence you need to write a portfolio of evidence to highlight how you...
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Dont try this at home How to make fireworks 17thcentury style
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/dont-try-this-at-home-how-to-make-fireworks-17th-century-style
With Guy Fawkes night (5 November) and Diwali (11 November) on the horizon, the skies of Leicester will be lit up over the next few weeks by firework displays - and a rare book held within the University's Library sheds light on how 17th century fireworks were made.
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Students calculate how much of the Amazon would be required to print the Internet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/students-calculate-how-much-of-the-amazon-would-be-required-to-print-the-internet
Students from the The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science have calculated how much paper would be required to physically print the Internet as we know it - and have worked out that despite the Internet’s enormous size less than 1 per cent of the Amazon rainforest’s...