Book burning
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book-burning-175-1748245
title:
Book burning
text:
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 an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials in question. Book burning can be an act of contempt for the book's contents or author, intended to draw wider public attention to this opposition, or conceal the information contained in the text from being made public, such
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Practice of destroying, books or other written material
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning
date created:
2002-11-27T23:45:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T03:05:23Z
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