Hello,
Here is my version of the exercise. Thank you in advance.
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<title>Re: Eileen Dover universiy application</title>
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<p><strong>Dr. Eleanor Gaye</strong><br>
Awesome Science faculty<br>
University of Awesome<br>
Bobtown, CA 99999,<br>
USA<br>
<strong>Tel:</strong> <a href="tel:+1-123-456-7890">
123-456-7890</a><br>
<strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:no_reply@example.com">
no_reply@example.com</a></p>
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<p class="sender-column"><time datetime="2016-01-20">20 January
2016</time></p>
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<p><strong>Miss Eileen Dover</strong><br>
4321 Cliff Top Edge<br>
Dover, CT9 XXX<br>
UK </p>
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<h1>Re: Eileen Dover university application</h1>
<p>Dear Eileen,</p>
<p>Thank you for your recent application to join us at the University
of Awesome's science faculty to study as part of your
<abbr title="Philosophiæ doctor">PhD</abbr> next year. I will
answer your questions one by one, in the following sections.</p>
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<h2>Starting dates</h2>
<p>We are happy to accommodate you starting your study with us at any
time, however it would suit us better if you could start at the
beginning of a semester; the start dates for each one are as
follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>First semester: <time datetime="2016-09-09">9 September
2016</time></li>
<li>Second semester: <time datetime="2017-01-15">15 January
2017</time></li>
<li>Third semester: <time datetime="2017-05-02">2 May
2017</time></li>
</ul>
<p>Please let me know if this is ok, and if so which start date you
would prefer.</p>
<p>You can find more information <a href="http://example.com"
title="Table of important university dates">about important
university dates on our website</a>.</p>
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<h2>Subjects of study</h2>
<p>At the Awesome Science Faculty, we have a pretty open-minded
research facility — as long as the subjects fall somewhere in the
realm of science and technology. You seem like an intelligent,
dedicated researcher, and just the kind of person we'd like to have on
our team. Saying that, of the ideas you submitted we were most
intrigued by are as follows, in order of priority:</p>
<ol>
<li>Turning H<sub>2</sub>O into wine, and the health benefits of
Resveratrol (C<sub>14</sub>H<sub>12</sub>O<sub>3</sub>.)</li>
<li>Measuring the effect on performance of funk bassplayers at
temperatures exceeding 30°C (86°F), when the audience size
exponentially increases (effect of 3 × 10<sup>3</sup> increasing to
3 × 10<sup>4</sup>.)</li>
<li><abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr> and
<abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> constructs for
representing musical scores.</li>
</ol>
<p>So please can you provide more information on each of these
subjects, including how long you'd expect the research to take,
required staff and other resources, and anything else you think we'd
need to know? Thanks.</p>
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<h2>Exotic dance moves</h2>
<p>Yes, you are right! As part of my post-doctorate work, I
<em>did</em> study exotic tribal dances. To answer your question, my
favourite dances are as follows, with definitions:</p>
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<dt>Polynesian chicken dance</dt>
<dd>A little known but <em>very</em> influential dance dating back
as far as 300 <abbr title="Before Christ">BC</abbr>, a whole village
would dance around in a circle like chickens, to encourage their
livestock to be "fruitful".</dd>
<dt>Arctic robot dance</dt>
<dd>Before the Icelanders developed fire as a means of getting warm,
they used to practice this dance, which involved huddling close
together in a circle on the floor, and shuffling their bodies around
in imperceptibly tiny, very rapid movements. One of my fellow
students used to say that he thought this dance inspired modern
styles such as Twerking.</dd>
<dt>Arctic robot dance</dt>
<dd>An interesting example of historic misinformation, English
explorers in the 1960s believed to have discovered a new dance style
charaterized by "robotic", stilted movements, being practiced by
inhabitants of Northern Alaska and Canada. Later on however it was
discovered that they were just moving like this because they were
really cold.</dd>
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<p>For more of my research, see my <a href="http://example.com"
title="Dr. Gaye's exotic dance research">exotic dance research
page</a>.</p>
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<p>Yours sincerely,</p>
<p>Dr Eleanor Gaye</p>
<p>University of Awesome motto: <q>Be excellent to each other.</q> --
<cite>The memoirs of Bill S Preston,
<abbr title="Esquire">Esq</abbr></cite></p>
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Note: I use several <address> elements for contact details because according the HTML 5.2 specification:
The
addresselement represents contact information for a person, people or organization. It should include physical and/or digital location/contact information and a means of identifying a person(s) or organization the information pertains to.
which is different from the old specification:
The
addresselement represents the contact information for its nearestarticleorbodyelement ancestor. If that is thebodyelement, then the contact information applies to the document as a whole.The
addresselement must not be used to represent arbitrary addresses (e.g., postal addresses), unless those addresses are in fact the relevant contact information. (Thepelement is the appropriate element for marking up postal addresses in general.)
