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Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Miranda's Best Friend: Tim the Toastman
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Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Egypt treasures saved
…signs of the recent turmoil when the area was engulfed in violence and looters tried to get hold of Egypt’s most valuable treasures…
… curators at the museum are now busy restoring them…
… The rioting and street battles in central Cairo happened right next to the Egyptian Museum…
… and so the museum’s real treasures, like the priceless mask of King Tut, survived, unscathed…
… when the uprising here began, there was a lot of fear that looters could get in here …
…after a short rampage through the museum, the sole looter was caught…
… more looters actually made it on to the premises, but they didn’t go into the museum …
…The Egyptian Army has taken over security for the museum. Soldiers kept an eye on us as we got our tour, and tanks are in place outside after a close call for some of the world’s most famous ancient treasures…
Frankenstein exhibition and play
1. Why is the presenter at the Bodleian Library in Oxford?
2. Date of the Shelleys’ trip to Geneva:
3. Expression to tell us that they are getting on well with their host:
4. Why did they have to spend most of the time indoors?
5. Who suggested that they all write a ghost story?
6. Where did Mary get the idea for Frankenstein from?
7. Number of novels she had written up to that moment:
8. What’s happened to Mary Shelley’s notebook?
9. Who wrote on the margins of the pages? Why?
10. What happens in the passage that they have in from of them?
11. Shelley tried to persuade her to _____________ to her great history inheritance.
12. Mary Wollstonecraft (author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women) was her __________
13. Full date of first publication:
14. Where did Walter Scott publish his guess that the novel might be by Shelley?
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Smoking ban: in England it's even worse!
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