1807 The windmill is built by Mr Green. a Nottingham baker in Sneinton, a village just outside the town of Nottingham. It is the largest and most Year 8 powerful of the twenty or so windmills in and around the town. 1817 Mr Green builds a fine house next to the windmill and his family move Summer 2 Knowledge Organiser here, away from the noisy, overcrowded town. 1828 Mr Green’s son George, whilst working at the “tedious and uninstruc- tive details of common business” publishes his now famous Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity Green’s Windmill and Magnetism” George Green was 14 years old when his father built the windmill and for most of the rest of his life George worked in the 1829 Old Mr Green dies and George takes over the business. The family has windmill. But George Green was also a brilliant mathematician and physicist. He devised new ways of doing mathematics prospered, owning property in Sneinton and Nottingham. which he used to make many discoveries about such things as electricity, magnetism, light, sound and wave motion. His mathematics– still called Green’s Theorem and Green’s function– are used today by scientists and engineers all over the 1833 George Green lets the milling business and the family house and be- world working with computers, lasers, satellite communications. Research scientists trying to understand the gravitational comes a student at Caius College, Cambridge. field of the Earth and sub-atomic particles. 1841 George Green dies in Sneinton, aged 47 years. Remarkably George Green had only 14 months at school, leaving when he was only ten years old to work in his father’s bakery and later in the windmill. In 1828 this self-taught genius published his greatest scientific work where he devised a c.1862 completely new way of using mathematics to understand electricity and magnetism. Five years later he became a student The mill ceases work. The sails are removed and the windmill is aban- doned at Caius College in Cambridge; he was forty years old. After taking his degree in mathematics he became a Fellow of the college where he did more research and published more scientific papers. But his health failed and he returned to 1919 The mill is bought by a Nottingham solicitor, Oliver Hind. He has the cap Nottingham, to his partner Jane Green and their seven children. He died in 1841 at the age of only 47 years. He is buried of the mill covered in copper sheeting to keep out the weather. The mill at St Stephen’s church, almost within the shadow of his windmill. is let to H Gell and Co. manufacturers of boot and furniture polish. 1947 In 1993, the bicentenary of his birth, George Green achieved the honour he so richly deserved when a memorial plaque A disastrous fire destroys much of the mill, only the brick tower left was dedicated in Westminster Abbey. standing. Once again the mill is abandoned. 1979 The derelict mill tower is bought by the George Green Memorial Fund and presented to the City of Nottingham. Restoration begins to provide a memorial to the genius of George Green. 1985 The windmill and Science Centre open to the public 1986 For the first time in around 125 years grain is again being ground in A view of the mill on a sunny day. 2012 Green's Windmill Trust, a registered charity, begin to take over manage- ment of the windmill and science centre on behalf of the City of Nottingham. 2 Contents Timetable 4 Subject: Geography 22 Reading Log 5 Subject: History 26 Principal’s Reading 7th June 7 Subject: Spanish 30 Principal’s Reading 14th June 8 Subject: ICT 32 Principal’s Reading 21st June 9 Subject: Product Design 1 34 Principal’s Reading 28th June 10 Subject: Product Design 2 36 Principal’s Reading 5th July 11 Subject: Food Technology 38 Principal’s Reading 12th July 12 Subject: At and Design 40 Principal’s Reading 19th July 13 Subject: Drama 42 Power writing template 14 Subject: English 16 Subject: Maths 18 Subject: Science 20 3 Timetable Achieve at BBA Year 8 Monday Tuesday 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wherein representatives from different parts of the world the action to gain international legitimacy. This was very The UK however is keen for the defence link with the USA to can discuss and evolve solutions for contemporary issues. In clear during the debate in 2002 about attacking Iraq. remain and therefore only supports the development of an common parlance, it is well known as intergovernmental EU defence capability that does not damage Nato. organisations. The World Trade Organization, European Union and Council of Europe are international Organisations Opinion polls suggest that many Labour MPs and members to name a few. of the public would only support military action if it were In economic terms, the UK is a member of the World Trade backed up by a UN resolution. This support for Organisation (WTO), a body charged with promoting global There was need to have a neutral forum where countries 'supranational' action is not just confined to military action. free trade. The WTO situation is complicated by the fact that could participate and discuss problems that were of on many trade issues the EU has sole competence to significance the world over. This gave rise to international negotiate for the fifteen member states. Organisations. Many within the parties of the 'left' (Labour, Liberal Democrats and the Greens) see the UN as the most The participating countries define the function of the appropriate lever to regulate industry, protect the The UK's economic power also means it is a member of the International Organisations. The objective of international environment and promote human rights. For example, the Group of 8 countries (G8), originally a grouping of the organisations is to study, collect and propagate information, Kyoto Treaty on climate change was negotiated under the world's seven richest industrial democracies. setting up of laws that are internationally accepted.