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  2. Ban This Book - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 978-0-7653-8556-7. Ban This Book is a 2017 children's novel by Alan Gratz. Inspired by a viral Internet story from the mid-2010s, it tells of an African-American North Carolina girl student's fight against book censorship. Published in 2017 to positive reviews, it became the subject of its own May 2024 ban in a Florida school district.

  3. List of books banned by governments - Wikipedia

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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Lewis Carroll. Children's Novel/Adventure. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in the province of Hunan, China by the KMT 's government, beginning in 1931, due to its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals which act with the same level of complexity as human beings.

  4. Ray-Ban - Wikipedia

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    Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.

  5. 4 Children for Sale - Wikipedia

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    4 Children for Sale is a photograph that depicts a mother, Lucille Chalifoux, hiding her head (presumably in shame) as her four children sit unwittingly beneath a sign that offers all of them for sale. [2] The photo was first published by the Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, Indiana on August 5, 1948 and was circulated widely during the ...

  6. Griffin Dunne on David Sedaris, 'The Kite Runner,' and The ...

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    penguinrandomhouse.com. $30.00. More. The title of Griffin Dunne’s first book, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir (Penguin Press) comes from the name of a weekly party his younger sister ...

  7. List of mergers and acquisitions by Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp. The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform. Meta also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly held ...

  8. Edwin Hodge Feared Something Would Go Wrong at ‘FBI: Most ...

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    Edwin Hodge and Caroline Harris Mark Schafer/CBS Edwin Hodge is just like Us and was worried that Special Agent Ray Cannon wouldn’t make it down the aisle on the season 5 finale of FBI: Most Wanted.

  9. TikTok says US House bill that could ban app would ... - AOL

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -TikTok on Sunday repeated its free-speech concerns about a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the U.S. if Chinese ...