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  2. Lists of banned books - Wikipedia

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    Book burning. List of book-burning incidents. Nazi book burnings. Burning of books and burying of scholars. Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England. Index Librorum Prohibitorum. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States.

  3. List of books banned by governments - Wikipedia

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    A display of formerly banned books at a US library. Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives. This ...

  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. Book censorship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [ 1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in 1637 in modern-day Quincy ...

  6. Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - Wikipedia

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    The Billboard Book of Number One Albums: The Inside Story Behind Pop Music's Blockbuster Records. Billboard Books. ISBN 0-8230-7586-9. Ray Charles, David Ritz (1992). Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story. Da Capo Press, USA. ISBN 0-306-80482-4. Nathan Brackett; Christian David Hoard; Christian Hoard (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide ...

  7. Z-Library - Wikipedia

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    Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis, but has expanded dramatically. [ 7][ 8]

  8. 2020s controversies around critical race theory - Wikipedia

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    Since 2020, efforts have been made by conservatives and others to challenge critical race theory (CRT) being taught in schools in the United States.. Following the 2020 protests of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd as well as the killing of Breonna Taylor, school districts began to introduce additional curricula and create diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-positions to address ...

  9. List of largest book publishers of the United Kingdom

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    John Wiley & Sons (UK) £26.7m (1.5%) Faber Independent Alliance £57.4m (3.3%) Faber & Faber, Atlantic Books, Canongate, Granta Books, Icon Books, Portobello Books, Profile Books (including Serpent's Tail), Short Books. A number of financially independent smaller publishers that have formed an alliance to share promotion and administration ...