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Beat The Blues - A Night in the Mississippi Delta
<p>The Blues is one of America’s great contributions to the world. It was the primary ingredient in all Jazz and Pop Music. Tonight, we will visit the area that produced the Blues. It began as a
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Perception and Reality
<p>What is real? What role does perception play? How do we ascertain what is real in an age of global media, increased simulation (and simulacra), misinformation, disinformation, virality, spin, hype
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Japanese for Travellers
<p>An introduction to Japanese language and culture for travellers to Japan. Learn and practice conversational Japanese, key expressions and vocabulary for real-life travel situations, and enjoy an
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Victorian and Federation Sydney - Sydney CBD Walking Tour
<p>The story of the founding of colonial Sydney is well known, but what is less well known is the Victorian and Federation period, where the city we know today really took shape. Between 1850 and 1900
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The Atomic Nucleus - A Journey to the Heart of Matter
<p>Nuclear Physics is a subject that brings shudders to many due, in part, to the enormous threat of nuclear weapons. It also has a reputation for being impenetrable subject matter. Whilst this course
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Wandering Through Oceania: Australian Travel-Adventure Authors of the 1930s
<p>With titles like <em>Try Anything Once</em>, <em>Rolling Down the Lachlan</em> and <em>To the Isles of Spice</em>, Frank Clune wrote books that appealed to Australian ‘armchair’ adventurers. In
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Peru at a Glance
<p>Peru has been blessed with cultural and natural gifts: home to the earliest civilisation in South America, famous for epic landmarks like Machu Picchu, and for its variety of landscapes - from
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<p>Peru has been blessed with cultural and natural gifts: home to the earliest civilisation in South America, famous for epic landmarks like Machu Picchu, and for its variety of landscapes - from
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The Improving Macquaries: Lachlan
<p>This walk will help you re-imagine early nineteenth-century Sydney Town and the task of governing the colony of convicts. Colonel Macquarie had to bring order to a society riven by conflicts. How
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The Colourful Victorians - Art, Design and Jewellery
<p>Our image of the Victorian era is Queen Victoria in black. But the Victorians loved colour – electric purples, green and yellows. A 2024 exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford explored this
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The Colourful Victorians - Art, Design and Jewellery
<p>Our image of the Victorian era is Queen Victoria in black. But the Victorians loved colour – electric purples, green and yellows. A 2024 exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford explored this
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A Brief History of Opera
<p>Get more out of opera! Explore its development through history, where it came from and how it developed through experimentation and trial and error. From the late Renaissance revival of Ancient
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