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Russell the rainmaker: Touring in early cold war Australia
No full textDuring his 1950 lecture tour of Australia, Bertrand Russell was given the nickname “Russell the Rainmaker” due to unseasonably wet weather in the eastern states that appeared to accompany his travels. This humorous name represents a central idea that shaped his tour. Russell was convinced that the technical ability to make rain could transform Australia’s largely dry landscape and boost the nation’s farming potential, which could, in turn, support a new age of happiness and prosperity. Russell used this vision of the future to imagine a safe refuge for Western civilization in case Europe was destroyed in a possible nuclear Third World War. This paper will discuss how his Australian tour was an important moment of both hope and anxiety in his life. Russell’s idea of a pastoral utopia in Australia that relied on optimism about the capability of science to transform the landscape can be understood as a key way in which he responded intellectually to the events of the early Cold War.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social SciencesFull Tex
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Russell Square: a lifelong resource for teaching and learning
No full textA quarter of a century ago, in 1978, Birkbeck College’s Faculty of Continuing Education (FCE, then the Department for Extra-Mural Studies of the federal University) moved to the offices that it now occupies in numbers 26 and 25 Russell Square. Then, as now, FCE was the one of the largest and most active extra-mural departments of any British university, with an enormous range of courses covering virtually every subject taught in ‘internal’ university departments and many more besides 1. Some of these courses have, from time to time, used Russell Square as a learning resource. Many more staff and students alike have (along with thousands of local workers, tourists and residents) used the square’s gardens for relaxation and recovery, without reflecting on its origins or present significance.
This Occasional Paper examines the past and present fabric of Russell Square (‘the Square’) as a resource for teaching and learning. It is a composite narrative assembled by FCE staff whose disciplines range from nature conservation through garden history and architectural history to social policy. It deconstructs the Square as an entity and attempts to decipher some of its ‘meanings’ that provide links between subjects taught within FCE.
We hope that it will stimulate discussion about the way this single ‘place’ – our Square - can be ‘seen’ or interpreted in different ways for diverse purposes, and about the way that it can be used as a resource for teaching and learning across disciplines
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[News Clip: Hope arrives for Dallas charity ball]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a charity ball for the the Women's Adoption International Fund. Actress Jane Russell and comedian Bob Hope entertain at the ball
Trumpet Studio Disc Two
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Trumpet Studio
Hope Armstrong Erb and Russell Wilson, pian
Trumpet Studio Disc One
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Trumpet Studio
Hope Armstrong Erb and Russell Wilson, pian
[Overview of the Kansas Department of Corrections – Adult and Juvenile] / presented by Acting Secretary Jeff Zmuda and Deputy Secretary Hope Cooper, Kansas Department of Corrections.
No full text"January 15, 2020."
Presentation before the Kansas Legislature, House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee, by Acting Secretary Jeff Zmuda and Deputy Secretary Hope Cooper, Kansas Department of Corrections.
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Includes a letter from Randy Bowman, Executive Director of Public Affairs to Chairman J. Russell Jennings, House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee, dated January 16, 2020 answering two questions from this presentation.Kansas Department of Corrections – Adult / Acting Secretary Zmuda
Kansas Department of Corrections – Juvenile / Deputy Secretary Cooper
Poetry draws upwards in hope
No full textThomas Delahunt, Canterbury Christ Church University – ‘Poetry Draws Upwards in Hope’
A creative discussion or polyculture on the need to use arts and poetry as a vehicle for professional expression. Thomas Delahunt, an award-winning academic, author and virgin playwright, is looking for willing orators to join a conversation on the premise that trauma needs discussion and a position of freedom within vocational roles filled with professional trauma
Russell Hershberger Oral History Interview: Polar Bear Oral History Project
No full textRecords of an oral history project done with veterans of the American Expeditionary Force, North Russia, 1918-1919 (“Polar Bears”). The collection also contains general background materials pertaining to the Polar Bears. Includes interview transcripts, cassette tapes, articles, bibliographies, diaries, clippings, photographs, microfilm and a book. Accession No.: H88-0239.5 Provenance: Polar Bear Oral History Project Donor: Hope College History Department Photographs: 24 images Processed by: Craig Wright, February 1991 Catherine Jung, April 200
Modelling the impact of calorie-reduction interventions on population prevalence and inequalities in childhood obesity in the Southampton Women’s Survey.
No full textIn the Excelsiora, a Hope Student News Paper, There is a Report of the Death of the Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte That Occurred On This Day but Published in Volume VII, Nov. to June, 1877
No full textIn the Excelsiora, a Hope student news paper, there is a report of the death of the Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte that occurred on this day but published in volume VII, Nov. to June, 1877. The author of the tribute to Van Raalte was R[ensa] H. Joldersma. The news paper/magazine was not published as such but was hand written. This tribute consists of seven pages.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1870s/1274/thumbnail.jp
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