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From Here To Timbucktu

December 26, 2021 – 2:38 am

When I was a child of the 50s in Maine, Timbukto symbolized the most remote destination on this Earth, although Bob Hope and Bing Crosby never made a ‘road movie’ to there. One day during geography class my teacher at Pine Grove Primary School in Falmouth Foresides traced her finger across the world map to […]

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Burn Koran Burn

September 12, 2010 – 1:13 pm

Biblioclasm or libricide is an ancient tradition. Fires have burned the famed libraries of Alexandria, Bagdhad, and the Mayan codices. More famously the Nazis piled degenerate books by Albert Einstein, Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Heine, Helen Keller, Thomas Mann, Karl Marx, Erich Maria Remarque, Frank Wedekind, Ernest Hemingway and H.G. Wells. German youth and Brown shirts […]

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