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8 Dec 2015: Activity One: The Nabonidus Chronicle. Introduction. The Nabonidus Chronicle is a cuneiform tablet currently housed in the British Museum. It is part of a series of chronicles written on clay tablets by the Babylonian priesthood designed to keep a

8 Dec 2015: Text 3: The Verse Account. Introduction. The Verse Account is another Babylonian document which describes the reign of Nabonidus. Although written in the same language as the Nabonidus Chronicle, it is very different in style. The identity of the

8 Dec 2015: Activity Four: The Book of Daniel, Chapter 5. Introduction. The Book of Daniel is part of the Old Testament of the Bible. The Old Testament contains an awful lot of useful historical information because Judea was part of the Babylonian and then the

8 Dec 2015: Answer Sheet. Activity One: Nabonidus Chronicle. Pros/things we can learn. - Initial version written close to the time of the events described, so written at a time when knowledge of the events were current, suggesting that they should be recorded

29 Oct 2015: Chirality in Chemistry. You may well have come across chiral molecules in chemistry although you don’t know. that you have. A really good example of this is with amino acids, all bar one of which are. chiral. To spot the chiral centre in a

29 Oct 2015: The Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules. These rules give the absolute configuration, R- and S- for each chiral center within a. compound. The chiral centers are names either R- or S-. To name a chiral center using the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules:. 1) Identify a

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1 - the Indian Army in Europe and the Middle East For a century and a half before the First World War, the British Empire relied on the manpower of the Indian Army for keeping the peace all across its vast imperial possessions. India made

10 Nov 2015: Activity 2 - Germany's African Colonies, 1914-1918. Germany was a relative newcomer to the 'scramble for Africa,' spreading into the few unclaimed parts of the continent via mercantile expansion and purchase of territory. By 1914, their colonial

10 Nov 2015: Activity 3 - World War I in Asia: The Siege of Tsingtao, 1914 In Asia, all the German colonies except for Tsingtao were under Australian or New Zealander control by mid-September 1914. The fortified city of Tsingtao, essential as it was for

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1 - Rebellion or Revolution? Haitian Declaration of Independence Read a translation of the text of Haiti’s declaration of independence from 1804: http://today.duke.edu/showcase/haitideclaration/declarationstext.html Questions to think