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Richborough - The secret port
No full textUsing primary sources to describe the secret development, operation and disposal of Richborough port in the First World War, including the controversy over its command and control
Richborough - the secret port
No full textPresentation showing how the secret port of Richborough was created and made a significant contribution to victory in the First World War
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Presentation: The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs
No full textMany people imagine dinosaurs as these giant lizards or even high intelligent creatures, but how are birds and dinosaurs related? Professor Julia Clarke explores the secret lives of dinosaurs. By studying the fossils and comparing to living animals to see how dinosaurs might have looked like. Celebrate Hot Science – Cool Talks #100 with us! Meet Professor Clarke and other leading scientists from this award-winning outreach series. The pre-lecture interactive Community Science Fair will will be expanded to include extra special hands-on activities as part of our celebration including ATX Dino, Steve Wolf’s Science in the Movies Show, and more!Environmental Science Institut
Investigating the ‘empire of secrecy’ — three decades of reporting on the secret state
Get PDFThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University LondonIt has often been argued that journalism has been the most effective means of holding the intelligence services to account in western democracies. This thesis examines whether that proposition holds true in the United Kingdom and if so, whether such oversight has been consistent. Accountability by the news media is compared with the expanding range of UK official oversight mechanisms. The author utilises a body or work from over three decades of reporting on the intelligence services and further research on accountability to examine these questions. The author suggests this work is timely, given the controversy prompted by the former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, who leaked a substantial archive of secret intelligence documents. This thesis concludes that the news media were often effective, if not consistent, in bringing intelligence to account in the second half of the 20th century. Since the start of the 21st century monitoring the secret state has become more challenging as a result of a changing economic, global and national political environment. Government legislation and technology makes it increasingly difficult for journalists to obtain confidential sources and then undertake their Fourth Estate role. Finding new methodologies is an urgent task for journalists, as history reveals that if intelligence agencies operate without scrutiny from outside government, abuses take place. Never before has government and its intelligence services had such powers and techniques of invasive mass surveillance available, and thus the potential to control the population and particularly those who dissent
The Secret Language of Elizabeth Tolbert
No full textThe Secret Language of Elizabeth Tolbert, 2015, is an installation composed of four scenographic spoken-word audio projections, four blood-stained embroidered handkerchiefs and a mass of dirt and hair spun across two domestic chairs.
The work visits the scenes and materials that the American ethnomusicologist Elizabeth Tolbert travelled to and used, in order to undertake research for her 1988 book The Musical Means of Sorrow: The Karelian Lament Tradition. The archives of the Finnish Literature Society in Helsinki and the University of Turku library became sites where the evocative act of ‘crying with words’, central to these Finnish folk songs was sought out in audio, photographic, textual and social form.
In order to generate audio recordings, some of the ritualistic structures of the Karelian Lament song performance were mobilised, such as telling a sad story in order to set the mood in the room. In other recordings, archival lament songs were edited in order to emphasise structural elements, such as crying, breathing, sobbing and gasping. The protagonist in another recordering whispers to microphone during a night shift of waged work in Goldsmiths library, University of London – his voice recounting the circumstances of finding Tolbert’s book.
Through correspondence with the author, recalling deaths over phone calls with family members and reconstructions of Tolbert’s graphic diagrams, the installation staged a meta-lament ritual based on the impossibility of access to Tolbert’s experience.
The Secret Language of Elizabeth Tolbert was performed, exhibited and aired in Heretics 12, Broken Diorama, 2017, Radio Quantica, Portugal; On Curating Histories, 2015, National College of Art and Design, Dublin; Something To Be Scared Of, 2015, AM London, London; Recording at the North Wall, Recording, 2015, North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford
The Secret is MSG
No full textThis is one of hundreds of 60-second radio spots created by the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) for Kansas Public Radio (KPR). The purpose of this outreach program is to introduce the people of Kansas to the culture and current issues of East Asia.Broadcast Transcript: So what's Japan's greatest contribution to world food culture? Instant ramen? Sushi? Well, what about MSG, monosodium glutamate, the flavor-enhancing seasoning often associated with Chinese restaurants, though today used in processed foods and fast food franchises the world over. MSG was discovered in 1907 by Ikeda Kikunae who was trying to pin down just what makes Japanese seaweed seem so yummy. Ikeda found that humans don't just recognize four basic tastes--sweet, sour, bitter, and salty--but also a fifth, which he called umami and which gets turned on with a buzz by monosodium glutamate. So when you enjoy some KFC, remember that the secret might just be MSG. #ashworth #ceas #japan #tsutsu
The Secret Garden
No full textIntro -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- I There Is No One Left -- II Mistress Mary Quite Contrary -- III Across the Moor -- IV Martha -- V The Cry in the Corridor -- VI "There Was Some One Crying-There Was!" -- VII The Key of the Garden -- VIII The Robin Who Showed the Way -- IX The Strangest House Any One Ever Lived In -- X Dickon -- XI The Nest of the Missel Thrush -- XII "Might I Have a Bit of Earth?" -- XIII "I Am Colin" -- XIV A Young Rajah -- XV Nest Building -- XVI "I Won't!" Said Mary -- XVII A Tantrum -- XVIII "Tha' Munnot Waste No Time" -- XIX "It Has Come!" -- XX "I Shall Live Forever-and Ever-and Ever!" -- XXI Ben Weatherstaff -- XXII When the Sun Went Down -- XXIII Magic -- XXIV "Let Them Laugh" -- XXV The Curtain -- XXVI "It's Mother!" -- XXVII In the Garden -- Back coverDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
The Secret Sharer
No full textIntro -- Title Page -- I -- II -- CopyrightDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Richborough: the secret port
Get PDFTalk to Sheppey History Society, 6th March 2020, Sheppey Little Theatre
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