What has captured your interest?
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Science - space , our earth , human body etc. 43 65.15% Economics 16 24.24% Music 14 21.21% Math 18 27.27% Geography 10 15.15% History 24 36.36% Learning Languages 13 19.70% Computers and technology 14 21.21% Sports 12 18.18% Art and Design 10 15.15% English and Literature 11 16.67% Drama 6 9.09% General Knowledge 29 43.94% Environmental Sciences 7 10.61%
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Re: What has captured your interest?Leading on from that this is the first time London has actually won the right to host the Olympics with the prior two Britain stepped in to take it off other countries hands(Original post by RobertWhite)
General knowledge. I find it amazing how some people can know so much useless information. Whenever I encounter random facts I make a small effort to remember them. For example, over the Olympics I have learnt London hosted it in 1908, 1948, and obviously 2012. Who knows, perhaps that will come useful in a pub quiz sometime
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Re: What has captured your interest?I knew that one too(Original post by PhysChemGirl)
London is also the first city to have hosted the olympics three times. Just another random/vaguely linked fact
I thought that too(Original post by Aspiringlawstudent)
No option for law, for some reason.
Interesting, I wonder why we took it off another country in 1908 though.(Original post by cl_steele)
Leading on from that this is the first time London has actually won the right to host the Olympics with the prior two Britain stepped in to take it off other countries hands [or so ive been told at least]
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Re: What has captured your interest?According to Wiki Rome was having a slight issue with an exploding volcano at the time, not entirely sure about 1948 but hey ho.(Original post by RobertWhite)
Interesting, I wonder why we took it off another country in 1908 though. -
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Re: What has captured your interest?Environmental science (which I would classify as environmental toxicology, biogeochemistry, oceanography, hydrology, etc) geography, and general knowledge (mostly because pointless general knowledge things end up staying in my head for some reason).
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Re: What has captured your interest?I'm guessing 1948 was due to WWII but I could be wrong.(Original post by cl_steele)
According to Wiki Rome was having a slight issue with an exploding volcano at the time, not entirely sure about 1948 but hey ho. -
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Re: What has captured your interest?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B9mCadqERE&feature=plcp
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Re: What has captured your interest?What kind of literature? lyric poetry? drama? epic poetry? all kinds of them? how huge is your interest in literature? do you read both English and foreign poets? or just English poets? I know, I have many questions, but you make me curious.(Original post by JollyGreenAtheist)
I'm quietly interested in most things, but my specialities are history, politics and literature. -
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Re: What has captured your interest?Yeah the last olympics before the war was the 1936 german ones so Britain wanted the next ones as a war prize.(Original post by RobertWhite)
I'm guessing 1948 was due to WWII but I could be wrong. -
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Re: What has captured your interest?I'm less of a poet enthusiast. I prefer to use poetry to supplement my interest in history. John Skelton is a political satirist from the 1500s who wrote poems; he's very fun to read. It's like an early modern version of Private Eye. The Poetic Edda is good too, since I'm rather taken by Viking history, but a bit dense to get through. Otherwise, TS Eliot.(Original post by Kallisto)
What kind of literature? lyric poetry? drama? epic poetry? all kinds of them? how huge is your interest in literature? do you read both English and foreign poets? or just English poets? I know, I have many questions, but you make me curious.
I much prefer novels. I'm writing my EPQ on Orwell and how he deals with misanthropy in his work, which is interesting, if a bit tedious. Johnny Swift relates to that well too, but I'm less keen on his novels as I am his essays. Full of wit.
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Re: What has captured your interest?If you are interest in foreign poets and foreign history too, I recommend you German poets in Baroque (1650-1720) and Vormärz (1815-1848) and you will experience a full of German history at that time.(Original post by JollyGreenAtheist)
(...) I'm afraid I'm not hugely versed in foreign lit.
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