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    Environmental Protest Groups
    Mon, 04 Jul 11

    Facts about the state of the global environment read like quotes on a poster for an epic Hollywood movie. However, many people feel that governments are not taking the environment seriously enough.

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    Student Power
    Tue, 22 Mar 11

    Who goes on strike? Is it factory workers? Miners? Bus drivers? How about... University or even school students?

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    Danger: bird bath!
    Tue, 22 Mar 11

    In Britain, 1207 people had to visit hospitals after accidents with chainsaws in 1999. However, in the same year, 16,662 people, more than twelve times as many, were injured by their sofa.

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    Tobacco
    Tue, 01 Mar 11

    Tobacco is grown in more than one hundred countries. Tomatoes and tobacco are both a member of the same botanical family. Tobacco smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals. Find out more...

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    Hallowe'en
    Tue, 01 Mar 11

    Find out some more about the traditional festival of Hallowe'en.

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    The Eden Project
    Mon, 18 May 09

    The Eden Project is in on the site of a clay pit in Cornwall, and consists of two enormous domes and an outdoor area. Visitors can learn to live in harmony with their environment.

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    Everything you (n)ever wanted to know about Mozart
    Mon, 26 Jan 09

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) of Austria was a keen and skilful billiards player. A slight deformity of his left ear was hidden by his wig. Mahler’s last word before he died was “Mozart”.

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    Death
    Mon, 24 Aug 09

    Death is something that everybody has in common. We are all born, we all live and we all die. However, the customs, beliefs and traditions surrounding death can differ greatly between different groups of people, different parts of the world or different stages throughout history.

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    Parts of the body
    Mon, 27 Jul 09

    There are 50 trillion cells in the human body, 206 bones, and 32 teeth. There is also at least one part of the body for every letter of the English alphabet. Can you guess what these 25 definitions are?

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    World Heritage
    Mon, 31 Aug 09

    If you think about World Heritage Sites, you probably think of places associated with ancient art and culture, and historical buildings. But let's look at a few of the more unusual sites on the List.

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    "Feeding the world" why we need rice
    Mon, 20 Oct 08

    Rice is low-fat and high in energy, and you can mix it with just about anything to make a wide variety of tasty nutritious dishes, ranging from sushi in Japan to risottos in northern Italy.

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    A beach
    Mon, 20 Jul 09

    Imagine a beach; a quiet place, with only the noise of the sea and the gulls in the background. It’s a hot day. There is just the sea, the sun, and the beach; a little paradise.

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    A Quick Guide to Dance
    Tue, 01 Jan 08

    Let's look at some different styles of dance.

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    Acupuncture
    Mon, 07 Sep 09

    Acupuncture is a treatment for pain and illness. Thin needles are positioned just under the surface of the skin at special nerve centres around the body.

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    Aeroplanes and global warming
    Tue, 01 Jan 08

    Have you ever looked out of the window of a plane at 30,000 feet at the vast expanses of empty ocean and uninhabited land, and wondered how people can have any major effect on the Earth?

A - Z of Content

"Feeding the world" why we need rice

A beach

A Quick Guide to Dance

Acupuncture

Aeroplanes and global warming

Amelia Earhart

An HIV/AIDS success story

Animal conservation

April Fool's Day

Archaeology

Assassination

Asthma

Awards

Be your own investigative journalist

Bilingualism

Biotechnology

Building bridges

Calendars

Charities

Christmas – the good, the bad and the ugly

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