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The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines is a book that economist William Stanley Jevons wrote in 1865 to explore the implications of Britain's reliance on coal. [1] [2] Given that coal was a finite, non-renewable energy resource, Jevons raised the question of sustainability.
[9] [10] Many school teachers now incorporate these videos into their classes, [4] [9] and the professor has even recorded video responses to some of the students' questions. [11] Some of the most popular videos are those of sodium, [10] potassium, and uranium. The Periodic Table of Videos team has also performed live.
In Nottingham residents celebrate, parading through the streets. On-going tensions between royalists and radicals escalate into a riot in a theatre as the latter refuse the royalists' command to take off their hats to sing the national anthem. Famine causes two days of Food Riots. They start as a person carries a loaf on a stick over the market.
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Nottingham (/ ˈ n ɒ t ɪ ŋ ə m / ⓘ NOT-ing-əm, locally / ˈ n ɒ t n ʊ m /) is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.It is located 33 miles (53 km) south-east of Sheffield and 45 miles (72 km) north-east of Birmingham.
In Anglo-Saxon times, around 600 AD, the site formed part of the Kingdom of Mercia, where it may have been known as "Tig Guocobauc" (though this is only known from the later 9th-century account of the Welsh cleric Asser, active at the court of Alfred the Great) meaning in Brythonic "a place of cave dwellings", until falling under the rule of a Saxon chieftain named Snot, [15] whereby it was ...
STORY: The Middle East and North Africa are making moves towards decarbonization.While the share of greenhouse gas emissions from the Arab region is considered to be low,CO2 emissions have still ...
Election Question Time 1 1 25 September 1979 London: Michael Foot, Teddy Taylor, Edna O'Brien, Derek Worlock: 2 2 2 October 1979 Tess Gill, Jo Grimond, Eric Morley, Peter Shore: 3 3 9 October 1979 Sue Arnold, Michael Heseltine, William Rodgers, Arthur Scargill: 4 4 16 October 1979 James Anderton, Judith Hart, John Mortimer, Enoch Powell: 5 5 23 ...