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It's 1762 BCE. As dawn breaks in the Babylonian city of Sippar, Beltani— a priestess and businesswoman— receives an urgent visit from her brother. He makes a troubling accusation: her tavern keeper has been undermining the business Beltani relies on in her old age. Now she has just a few short hours to find out the truth. Soraya Field Fiorio details a day in the life of a Babylonian naditu.
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- Area Studies
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- Middle East -- Babylonia Social conditions Women
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The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes about 17 of them. In this hilarious, fast-paced, and insightful talk, the magazine's longstanding cartoon editor and self-proclaimed "humor analyst" Bob Mankoff dissects the comedy within just some of the "idea drawings" featured in the magazine, explaining what works, what doesn't, and why.
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- Visual Arts
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- New Yorker (New York N.Y. : 1925) Wit humor Caricatures cartoons
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Vanessa Ruiz takes us on an illustrated journey of human anatomical art over the centuries, sharing captivating images that bring this visual science -- and the contemporary artists inspired by it -- to life. "Anatomical art has the power to reach far beyond the pages of a medical textbook," she says, "connecting our innermost selves with our bodies through art."
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- Medicine art Medical illustration
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Band 9.0 IELTS Practice Speaking Exam (mock test) - with feedback - Saskia (2) from Sri Lanka
- Course related:
- ELC3421 English for Construction and Environmental Professionals
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- English Language
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- English language -- Spoken English
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- ELC1A04 From Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter: Fantasy, Reality and Humanity
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- History
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- World history
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In 16 episodes, Taylor Behnke teaches you linguistics! The content is based on an introductory university-level curriculum, curated by a team of linguists: Lauren Gawne, Jessi Grieser, and Gretchen McCulloch. By the end of this course, you will be able to: * Understand how linguists approach analyzing language, including our ethical responsibility to use our increased understanding of how language works to be more compassionate with language * Identify and analyze the structural features of language, across different levels, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics * Apply this structural approach to describe language as it is used, including its social functions, how people learn language, and how language is used in technology * Recognize that there are thousands of spoken languages and hundreds of signed languages in the world * Identify the International Phonetic Alphabet and understand the system behind how the IPA chart is organized"
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- English Language
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- Linguistics
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Dr Kalyani Vallath explains very important terms from Cultural Studies to help students of English Literature in preparing for NTA NET English, university entrance exams, and to help with research. Video made by Hariharan S Vallath
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- APSS1B12 Media and Everyday Life
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- Sociology and Cultural Studies
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- Mass media -- Political aspects Mass media -- Social aspects
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In this video I outline the basic process types in English. Process is an experiential function of the verbal group. In functional grammar, we understand that verbs may have different functions - they are not only 'doing' words but also words of 'thinking', 'feeling', 'being', 'having', 'saying' and more.
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- ENGL2006 Analysis of English Grammar
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- English Language
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- Linguistics English language -- Grammar
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This video is actually a link for learning Japanese language and the video belongs to the edX course organizer, Waseda University
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- CBS1C16 Understanding Japan: A Journey into Japanese Culture and Society
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- Japanese Language
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- Japanese language -- Study teaching
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John Mill and the Greatest Happiness Principle -- A Comic Course Wanna watch the full version of the comic that explains the ideas of Mill and other philosophers? Join our free online course: https://www.edx.org/course/practical-thinking-skills-for-a-successful-life-2 You can also ask questions and discuss ideas with professional thinkers in the course forums for free!
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- CBS1A22 Creativity and Creative Thinking.
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- Philosophy
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- Mill John Stuart 1806-1873 Happiness
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