Book burning is the deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context. The burning of books represents...
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The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (German: Deutsche Studentenschaft, DSt) to ceremonially burn books in Nazi...
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Notable book burnings – the public burning of books for ideological reasons – have taken place throughout history. About 600 BC, Jeremiah of Anathoth wrote...
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In other cases, such as the Nazi book burnings, copies of the destroyed books survive, but the instance of book burning becomes emblematic of a harsh and...
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Bebelplatz (section Nazi book burning)
of the infamous Nazi book burning ceremonies held in the evening of 10 May 1933 in many German university cities. The book burnings were initiated and hosted...
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The burning of books and burying of scholars was the purported burning of texts in 213 BCE and live burial of 460 Confucian scholars in 212 BCE ordered...
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The book burning at Ephesus is an incident recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, where Christian converts at Ephesus, influenced by Paul the Apostle, burned...
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Fahrenheit 451 (section "Burning Bright")
he wrote the book because of his concerns about the threat of burning books in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary...
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The Empty Library (redirect from Memorial in memory of the burning of books)
Israeli sculptor Micha Ullman dedicated to the remembrance of the Nazi book burnings that took place in the Bebelplatz in Berlin, Germany on May 10, 1933...
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Paris Burning? is a 1965 book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre telling the story of the Liberation of Paris during the Second World War. The book examines...
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these matters to both health professionals and laypersons. The Nazi book burnings in Berlin included the archives of the institute. After the Nazis gained...
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Historical negationism (section Book burning)
state. The Burning of books and burying of scholars (traditional Chinese: 焚書坑儒; simplified Chinese: 焚书坑儒; pinyin: fénshū kēngrú; lit. 'burning of books...
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Book burnings in Chile were done by the military junta led by dictator General Augusto Pinochet following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The military dictatorship...
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with a desire to censor it. Book burning is one of the original types of censorship dating back to 213 BCE. Book burning has historically been performed...
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The burning bush (or the unburnt bush) refers to an event recorded in the Jewish Torah (as also in the biblical Old Testament). It is described in the...
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instances of Quran-burning occurred in Sweden, which were named collectively by Swedish media as the Korankrisen ("Quran crisis"; "Quran burning crisis" in some...
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The Burning Sun scandal, also known as Burning Sun gate, was a 2019 entertainment and sex scandal in Seoul, South Korea, which involved several celebrities...
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the Nazi Party, whose blacklist provided the template for the Nazi book burnings in May 1933. Herrmann was born in Alsleben. While still in school, he...
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The burning of the Jaffna Public Library (Tamil: யாழ் பொது நூலகம் எரிப்பு, Yāḻ potu nūlakam erippu; Sinhala: යාපනය මහජන පුස්තකාලය ගිනිබත් කිරීම, Yāpanaya...
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The Book of Burning is an album by the American heavy metal band Virgin Steele. It was released in January 2002 by Noise Records to celebrate the twentieth...
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for the outdoor Frankfurt Christmas Market. It was the site of a Nazi book burning in 1933. Römer Frankfurt 30m 33yds 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 "Frankfurt...
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Art in Nazi Germany (section Book burnings)
fuse, the bonfire triggered book burning in other cities all over Germany, including Frankfurt and Munich, where the burnings were part of an orchestrated...
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Wartburg Festival (category Book burnings)
Luther's burning of the papal bull Exsurge domine in 1520, followers of "Turnvater" Friedrich Ludwig Jahn arranged a book burning with the burning of mocked...
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Pink Peacock (section Book burning)
K. Rowling. A spokesperson denied that the act was similar to Nazi book burnings, due to differences in power between a government and a café. Pink Peacock...
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The bibliographical definition of an edition is all copies of a book printed from substantially the same setting of type, including all minor typographical...
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Lists of banned books (redirect from Banned book)
Librorum Prohibitorum Banned Books Museum Book burning List of book-burning incidents Nazi book burnings Burning of books and burying of scholars Areopagitica;...
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throws the book into the fireplace. However, her clothing goes up in flames at the same time as the book does. Her clothes only stop burning when she pulls...
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Maní, Yucatán (section Maya book burning)
San Miguel Arcángel, held an auto de fe Inquisitional ceremony in Maní, burning a number of Maya hieroglyphic books and a reported 5000 idols, saying that...
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The poem, entitled "Book Burning Pit," speaks about the late emperor Qin Shi Huang's practice of beheading scholars and burning books, only to be overthrown...
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Shadows London's Burning (game), a World War II-based board game London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City, a 2015 photography book Great Fire of London...
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