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15 Amazing Notebooks to Inspire You to Write More
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15 Amazing Notebooks to Inspire You to Write More
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Lack of Paid Leave Costs Americans $20.6 Billion a Year
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Lack of Paid Leave Costs Americans $20.6 Billion a Year
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Newsletter Item for (86438): The One Change You Should Make to Vastly Improve Your Morning Coffee
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Baristas weigh in on the most important part of the home-brewing process.
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Newsletter Item for (86195): The Earliest Known Descriptions of 5 U.S. Landmarks
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From the European discovery of America through to the land rushes and gold rushes of the 19th century, a host of explorers, navigators, cartographers, and prospectors have opened up the landscape of the United States over the years—and provided vivid accounts of everything they found.
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Newsletter Item for (86612): DNA of Ancient Cats Traces the Path of Their Global Conquest
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DNA of Ancient Cats Traces the Path of Their Global Conquest
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Cats have been using humans for thousands of years.
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Newsletter Item for (86519): 13 Mummified Facts about Ötzi the Iceman
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13 Mummified Facts about Ötzi the Iceman
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Newsletter Item for (86518): Retrobituary: Patrick Manson, the Man Who First Linked Mosquitoes to Disease
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24 of the Most Banned Books of All Time
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“A book is a loaded gun,” Ray Bradbury famously wrote in Fahrenheit 451, and plenty of people seem to concur with the story’s book-burning Captain Beatty that certain works are just too dangerous to leave sitting around. Parents and library patrons regularly band together to demand that certain books be pulled from public shelves, citing a desire to protect readers from coarse language, sexual themes, or other perceived offenses. In honor of Banned Books Week (September 25 to October 1), take a gander at the infographic below from Readers.com, which features some of the most protested books ever published, according to the American Library Association.
Though the ideas presented in books like the Harry Potter series might not be quite as dangerous as some protesters would have you believe, a few kids’ books have actually had to be recalled for safety reasons—like the 1990s crib books, which mistakenly included straight pins left over from the manufacturing process.
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September 26, 2016 – 11:30am