If you ask the politicians banning books why they are doing it, most will say they are just trying to protect children.

But is that true?

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Mr. Gowan's regular business was real estate.
Under the head "Our Schools," one of the items given a
line on educational discipline of that day:

— George Stanley Turnbull
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La dernière fois que je vous ai écrit, je l’ai fait fort à la hâte et ai oublié, je crois, de vous parler élections. Le moment approche, et puisque vous êtes déterminé à me placer sur votre liste, je vous serai bien obligé de me faire savoir de temps en…

— Frédéric Bastiat
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DUCK, the Common Wild, or Anas boschas, L. an aquatic fowl, from which the common tame sorts derive their origin.
This bird frequents the lakes of different countries, and feeds upon frogs and several sorts of insects.—The wild-ducks pair in the…

— Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)
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À l’époque où le visita ce prêtre italien, le jardin des Tuileries devait être, d’ailleurs, en grand bouleversement, car c’est en 1664, ou, tout au moins, au cours de l’année suivante, qu’André Lenôtre en commença la transformation.

— G. Lenotre
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Les preuves ne manquent pas qu’Esterhazy fut averti par Henry. Dès son premier rapport, du 17 avril, Desvernine signale que «le caractère du Bienfaisant» — nom employé par l’agent pour désigner Esterhazy, qui demeure rue de la Bienfaisance, — «s’est assombri…

— Joseph Reinach
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SATs, ACTs, entrance exams, and finals are all incredibly stressful for students...

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Robinhood Launches Public Mainnet for Arbitrum-Based Layer 2

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June 11th, 1850.Six months to look back onsix long, lonely months, since Laura and I last saw each other!
How many days have I still to wait? Only one! To-morrow, the twelfth, the travellers return to England. I can hardly realise my own happiness; I can…

— Wilkie Collins
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J.-J. De Smet.
Gislebert, Chron. Hannoniæ. — Corpus Chron. Flandriæ. — Sueyro, Anales de Flandes, t. II. — Niester, Chron. Annal. Alex. — Villehardouin, De la conqueste de Constantinople.

— Joseph-Jean De Smet
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Robin Hood invested in Lighter, then launched US perpetual futures through Bitstamp instead. LIT dropped 20% in days. The market had priced in a US expansion that never came.

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The Senate Education Committee REFUSED to hear opposition to book-banning legislation in order to push it through.

That means they need to hear from you, RIGHT NOW.

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(Lat. dos religiosa).
Because of its analogy with the dower that a woman brings to her husband when she marries, the name "religious dower" has been given to the sum of money or the property that a religious woman, or nun (religiosa) brings, for her…

— Auguste Boudinhon
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