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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 book burning at Ephesus is an event recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, where Christian converts at Ephesus, influenced by Paul the Apostle, burned...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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 bush (or the unburnt bush) refers to an event recorded in the Jewish Torah (as also in the biblical Old Testament and Islamic scripture)....
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  • 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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    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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    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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  • become members of the Hitler Youth movement. At a Nazi book burning ceremony, she grabs a book that has been only singed. She is seen by Ilsa Hermann...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • A Burning is a novel by Indian-born author Megha Majumdar released in June 2020. By December 2020, the novel was on 13 lists of the best books of 2020...
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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 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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    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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  • Burning bush is described in the Book of Exodus and used as a symbol of various Presbyterian denominations. The term (also burning-bush and burningbush)...
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    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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