Encyclopedia - Book Burning: Encyclopedia - Book Burning
Book burning is the practice of ceremoniously destroying by fire one or more copies of a book or other written material. In modern times ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Book Burning: Encyclopedia Ii - Book Burning - In Fiction
The first part of Don Quixote has a scene in whtich the priest and the housekeeper of the knight go through the chivalry books that have ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Book Burning: Encyclopedia Ii - Book Burning - In Fiction
The first part of Don Quixote has a scene in which the priest and the housekeeper of the knight go through the chivalry books that have t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Book Burning: Encyclopedia Ii - Book Burning - Notable Book Burning Incidents
Book burning - Famous incidents of other items ceremoniously burnt in protest. Registration passes burned by Indian and Chinese citiz...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Book Burning: Encyclopedia Ii - Book Burning - Notable Book Burning Incidents
Book burning - Famous incidents of other items ceremoniously burnt in protest. Registration passes burned by Indian and Chinese citize...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burning Of Washington: Encyclopedia Ii - Burning Of Washington - Occupation And Burning
On August 25, the advance guard of British troops marched to Capitol Hill; they were too few in number to occupy the city, so Ross intend...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alamogordo New Mexico: Encyclopedia - Alamogordo New Mexico
Alamogordo is a city located in Otero County, New Mexico, United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total populatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burning Of Washington: Encyclopedia Ii - Burning Of Washington - Background
At the time, Washington was a minor port with only about 8,000 inhabitants — about 1,300 of whom were slaves. What it lacked in strateg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Temple: Encyclopedia - Black Temple
The Black Temple is a location set in Blizzard Entertainments video game and book series, Warcraft. In the MMORPG World of Warcraft: The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Auchindoun: Encyclopedia - Auchindoun
Auchindoun is a location set in Blizzard Entertainment's video game and book series, Warcraft. In the MMORPG World of Warcraft: The Burni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Folklore: Encyclopedia - Chinese Folklore
Chinese folktales have a long history, going back several thousand years. Periodically they have been revised, with emperors ordering the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicones: Encyclopedia - Cicones
The Cicones (also Kikones) were a Thracian tribe, whose stronghold in the time of Odysseus was the city of Ismara (or Ismaros), located a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Purim: Encyclopedia - Purim
Purim (פּוּרִים "Lots", Standard Hebrew Purim, Tiberian Hebrew Pûrîm: plural of פּוּר pûr "Lot", from Akkadian pūru) is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship: Encyclopedia - Censorship
Censorship is the control of speech and other forms of human expression, often by government intervention. It is most commonly applied t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Balnazzar: Encyclopedia - Balnazzar
Balnazzar is a fictional character in the Warcraft universe — a fictional universe in which a series of computer games and books are se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blackrock Spire: Encyclopedia - Blackrock Spire
Blackrock Spire is a location set in Blizzard Entertainments video game and book series, Warcraft. In the MMORPG World of Warcraft it act...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amber In British Place Names: Encyclopedia - Amber In British Place Names
Burnham Market is an ancient settlement for amber trade. Amber (brandstein in German, the "burning" stone or "burnstone") is found at the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burning Of Washington: Encyclopedia Ii - Burning Of Washington - Aftermath
The thick sandstone walls of the President's House survived, although scarred with smoke and scorch marks. Although a popular myth has it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - B.o.t.a. Tarot: Encyclopedia - B.o.t.a. Tarot
The B.O.T.A. Tarot was created by Paul Foster Case, founder of B.O.T.A. and artist Jessie Burns Parke. The B.O.T.A. Tarot, revealed many ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caverns Of Time: Encyclopedia - Caverns Of Time
The Caverns of Time is a location set in Blizzard Entertainment's video game and book series, Warcraft. In the MMORPG World of Warcraft: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alamogordo New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Alamogordo New Mexico - Geography
Alamogordo is located at 32°53'45" North, 105°57'8" West (32.895940, -105.952134)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alamogordo New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Alamogordo New Mexico - Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 35,582 people, 13,704 households, and 9,729 families residing in the city. The population density ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alamogordo, New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Alamogordo, New Mexico - Geography
Alamogordo is located at 32°53'45" North, 105°57'8" West (32.895940, -105.952134)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alamogordo, New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Alamogordo, New Mexico - Grave Of Ham, First Chimp In Space
Ham was the world's first astrochimp, trumpeted by the United States as "the first free creature in outer space". He blasted off from Cap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alamogordo, New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Alamogordo, New Mexico - Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 35,582 people, 13,704 households, and 9,729 families residing in the city. The population density ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alamogordo, New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Alamogordo, New Mexico - Atari Burial Grounds
In 1983, with the video game industry they had helped create crashing down around their ears, Atari warehouses were filled with millions ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alamogordo New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Alamogordo New Mexico - Grave Of Ham First Chimp In Space
Ham was the world's first astrochimp, trumpeted by the United States as "the first free creature in outer space". He blasted off from Cap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alamogordo New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Alamogordo New Mexico - Atari Burial Grounds
In 1983, with the video game industry they had helped create crashing down around their ears, Atari warehouses were filled with millions ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alamogordo New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Alamogordo New Mexico - Atari Burial Grounds
In 1983, with the video game industry they had helped create came crashing down around their ears, Atari warehouses were filled with mill...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disco Demolition Night: Encyclopedia Ii - Disco Demolition Night - The Event
Steve Dahl and Garry Meier, two radio disc jockeys for the Chicago radio station WLUP, devised a promotion that involved people bringing ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disco Demolition Night: Encyclopedia Ii - Disco Demolition Night - Blame
Although Bill Veeck took much of the public heat for this fiasco, it was known among baseball people that his son Mike was the actual fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Banned Books: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Banned Books - Banning Documentation
ALA_2000 is used to denote books that appear on the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 list of the American Library Asso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tillamook Burn: Encyclopedia Ii - Tillamook Burn - Restoration
Much of the lands of the Tillamook burn had come to be owned by the counties of Tillamook, Yamhill, and Washington through foreclosures o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fiery Furnace: Encyclopedia Ii - Fiery Furnace - Characters
Fiery furnace - Shadrach. Hananiah is a Hebrew boy in the Book of Daniel in the Bible, also known as Shadrach. Introduced in Daniel 1 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Abanes: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Abanes - Harry Potter
Abanes also is well-known for the words of caution he has voiced about the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling. In addition to the many ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Burns Cartoonist: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Burns Cartoonist - Comics Works
Charles Burns's earliest prominent works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine and contributions to Art Spiegelman's comic magazi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Institutional Memory: Encyclopedia Ii - Institutional Memory - Institutional Knowledge
Institutional knowledge is commonly considered to be the knowledge gained through various resources which enable organizations to transla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Institutional Memory: Encyclopedia Ii - Institutional Memory - Personal Reminiscences
Prior to the advent of the written word, memories had been shared exclusively by other means. A great number of oral traditions can be tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tariq Ibn-ziyad: Encyclopedia Ii - Tariq Ibn-ziyad - Ship Burning
There is no mention in Muslim books of this intentional or accidental burning of the ships. The claim appears only in European sources. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lucius Tarquinius Superbus: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucius Tarquinius Superbus - Reign
When king Tarquin was approached by the Cumaean Sibyl, she offered him nine books of prophecy at an exorbitant price. Tarquin refused abr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Book Of Prefaces: Encyclopedia Ii - A Book Of Prefaces - Response
A Book of Prefaces - Critical Response. Response to Mencken's book was generally poor, but certain defenders of American culture were p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Book Of Obadiah: Encyclopedia Ii - Book Of Obadiah - Themes
The overwhelming theme found in Obadiah is the destruction of enemies of God’s people. Unlike some other prophets, Obadiah does not pre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sacromonte: Encyclopedia Ii - Sacromonte - The Lead Books Los Plomos Del Sacromonte
The legend derives from the discovery in the caves between 1594 and 1606 of 22 volumes of "lead books" - each consisting of a number of i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eastenders Merchandise: Encyclopedia Ii - Eastenders Merchandise - Annuals And Books
A number of adaptation books based on EastEnders were produced from around 1985 to 1988. Written by Hugh Miller and published by Grafton ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - The Burning Times
"The Burning Times" is an English term that was invented by Mary Daly and first used in her book, Gyn/Ecology: The Meta-Ethics of Radical...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Matthew F. Hale: Encyclopedia Ii - Matthew F. Hale - Early Life
Hale was raised in East Peoria, a blue-collar community on the Illinois River. According to Hale, by the age of twelve, he was reading bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Loudun: Encyclopedia Ii - Loudun - Miscellaneous
The 1952 book titled The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley tells the story of the trial of Urbain Grandier, priest of the town who was to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship - Censorship Types
In England, it started by introduction of copyright laws which gave the crown the permission to license publishing. Without government ap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship - State Secrets And Unwanted Attention
Explicit wartime censorship is carried out with the intention of preventing the release of information that might be advantageous to an e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship - Terms
"Censorship" comes from the ancient Roman word "censor". In Rome, the censor had two duties, to count the citizens and to supervise their...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship - Implementation
Censorship is regarded among a majority of academics in the Western world as a typical feature of dictatorships and other authoritarian p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1890s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1890s - Events And Trends
1890s - Technology. Early commercial production of automobiles. 1890s - Science. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity Discovery...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Damnation: Encyclopedia Ii - Damnation - Religious
In some forms of Western Christian belief, damnation to hell is the punishment of God for persons with unredeemed sin. Damnation can be a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Millerites: Encyclopedia Ii - Millerites - Origins
Miller was a profitable farmer, a Baptist layman and amateur student of the Bible, living in northern New York, in the region of that sta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Axel Jensen: Encyclopedia Ii - Axel Jensen - Biography
Jensen was born in Trondheim. He first made his debut as a novelist in Oslo in 1955 with the novel Dyretemmerens kors (1955), but later h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship - Terms
"Censorship" comes from the Latin word "censor". In Rome, the censor had two duties, to count the citizens and to supervise their morals....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship - Censorship Types
In England, censorship began with the introduction of copyright laws which gave the Crown the permission to license publishing. Without g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship - State Secrets And Unwanted Attention
In wartime, explicit censorship is carried out with the intent of preventing the release of information that might be useful to an enemy....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship - Implementation
Censorship is regarded among a majority of academics in the Western world as a typical feature of dictatorships and other authoritarian p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship - Implementation
Censorship is regarded among a majority of academics in the Western world as a typical feature of dictatorships and other authoritarian p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moses: Encyclopedia Ii - Moses - The Horned Moses
Due to a statement towards the end of the book of Exodus (at 34:29-35), in which Moses is depicted as having been disfigured due to his d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Popol Vuh: Encyclopedia Ii - Popol Vuh - History Of The Book
The best known and most complete manuscript of the Popul Vuh is in the Quiché Maya language. After the Spanish conquest of Guatemala, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Salman Rushdie: Encyclopedia Ii - Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses Controversy
The publication of The Satanic Verses in September 1988 caused immediate controversy in the Islamic world due to its allegedly irreverent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Livermore California: Encyclopedia Ii - Livermore California - World's Long Lasting Lightbulb
The town is noted for one amazing record, a 104+ year old 4-watt lightbulb housed by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department is still bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Don Quixote: Encyclopedia Ii - Don Quixote - Literary Influence
Influences for Don Quixote include the Valencian novel Tirant lo Blanc, one of the first chivalric epics, which Cervantes describes in Ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Confucianism: Encyclopedia Ii - Confucianism - The Spread Of Confucianism
As mentioned above, the Burning of the Books and Burying of the Scholars resulted in the destruction of large numbers of books, and very ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modesty Blaise: Encyclopedia Ii - Modesty Blaise - Story List
There were 96 storylines produced by the Modesty Blaise comic strip, all written by Peter O'Donnell. The strips were drawn by Jim Holdawa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schuylkill County Pennsylvania: Encyclopedia Ii - Schuylkill County Pennsylvania - Railroad History
The Reading and Pennsylvania railroad: In the early 1800s southern Schuylkill County was served by the Union Canal out of Pine Grove with...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schuylkill County Pennsylvania: Encyclopedia Ii - Schuylkill County Pennsylvania - Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,027 km2 (783 mi2). 2,016 km2 (778 mi2) of it is land and 11 km2 (4 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schuylkill County Pennsylvania: Encyclopedia Ii - Schuylkill County Pennsylvania - Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 150,336 people, 60,530 households, and 40,131 families residing in the county. The population densit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Red Red Rose: Encyclopedia Ii - A Red Red Rose - Musical Performances
Urbani published the song to an original tune that he write. The song appeared in Johnson's Museum in 1797 to the tune of Neil Gow's "Maj...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alpha Flight: Encyclopedia Ii - Alpha Flight - Beyond
Alpha Flight will be appearing in issue 16 of Marvel's New Avengers. The solicitation for the issue describes this as "Alpha Flight... in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Red, Red Rose: Encyclopedia Ii - A Red, Red Rose - Musical Performances
Urbani published the song to an original tune that he write. The song appeared in Johnson's Museum in 1797 to the tune of Neil Gow's "Maj...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amber Room: Encyclopedia Ii - Amber Room - Destruction Theory
Recently, a pair of British investigative journalists conducted lengthy research on the fate of the Amber Room, including extensive archi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Purim: Encyclopedia Ii - Purim - Social Customs
The Book of Esther prescribes "the sending of portions one to another, and gifts to the poor". Over time, this became one of the most pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pansy: Encyclopedia Ii - Pansy - Diseases And Pests
Pansy - Diseases. The plant may collapse without warning in the middle of season. The foliage will flag and lose color. Flowers will f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope Leo I: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope Leo I - Zeal For Orthodoxy
An uncompromising foe of heresy, Leo found that in the diocese of Aquileia, Pelagians were received into church communion without formal ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Peter Corey: Encyclopedia Ii - Peter Corey - Work On Camera
Peter Corey has starred in dramas and soaps. He was in Brookside for two years playing "Freddie Spence", a man who did not like the polic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heretic Video Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Heretic Video Game - Story
When you first saw the seven candles, you knew. You knew - but any Sidhe would have known in the magic of the reflections pulsing across ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guatemala: Encyclopedia Ii - Guatemala - History
Main article: History of Guatemala From the 3rd century BC to the 11th century AD, the lowlands area of the Petén and Izabal regions of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fahrenheit 451: Encyclopedia Ii - Fahrenheit 451 - Accuracy As A Vision Of The Future
Several aspects of the fictional future depicted in the novel have become reality in the late 20th and early 21st century: Live televisi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ketchup: Encyclopedia Ii - Ketchup - History
Ketchup in the 1800s referred to any sauce made with vinegar. As the century progressed, tomato ketchup began its ascent in popularity, i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monticello Indiana: Encyclopedia Ii - Monticello Indiana - History
Monticello, Indiana was hit by a tornado on April 3 1974. The aftermath of this storm is recorded in David Maroney's book, Killer Tornado...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - London Bridge Is Falling Down: Encyclopedia Ii - London Bridge Is Falling Down - History
The earliest reference to the rhyme appears to be in a play of 1659, and it is recorded as being associated with children by 1720. The ea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Freddy Vs. Jason: Encyclopedia Ii - Freddy Vs. Jason - Story
The film begins with Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund) in his human days, throwing a doll into a furnace, then murdering a young ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Freddy Vs. Jason: Encyclopedia Ii - Freddy Vs. Jason - Story
The film begins with Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund) in his human days, throwing a doll into a furnace, then murdering a young ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Riots In Palestine Of 1929: Encyclopedia Ii - Riots In Palestine Of 1929 - Sequence Of Events
On August 14, 1929, 6,000 Jews marched in Tel Aviv chanting "The Wall is ours". The next day, hundreds of Jews, including Betar members a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quaker History: Encyclopedia Ii - Quaker History - Persecution In The New World
Friends faced persecution again as they migrated to America. The first Friends in the New World came in order to spread their beliefs. In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 100 Bullets: Encyclopedia Ii - 100 Bullets - Other Media Adaptations
Acclaim had announced plans to release a video game based on 100 Bullets, but following the collapse of Acclaim's publishing house, the g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sewing Machine: Encyclopedia Ii - Sewing Machine - Miscellaneous Information
Shoes, gloves, hats, books, upholstery, hosiery, tents, awnings, flags, and sails are sewn on specially devised machines. Machines have b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Tyger: Encyclopedia Ii - The Tyger - Allusions To The Poem
The third story in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is titled Tiger! Tiger! The title of Northrop Frye's first groundbreaking work on B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 'tis The Fifteenth Season: Encyclopedia Ii - 'tis The Fifteenth Season - Synopsis
For Christmas, Carl gives Homer a DVD player and the first season of Magnum, P.I. However, Homer forgets he is Lenny's secret Santa and i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Peter Pocklington: Encyclopedia Ii - Peter Pocklington - The Trade
On August 9, 1988, Pocklington shocked hockey fans by trading Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, $15 mill...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad Ahmad: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhammad Ahmad - The Mahdiyah
With Sudan now in Sudanese hands, the Mahdi formed a government. The Mahdiyah (Mahdist regime) imposed traditional Islamic laws. Sharia c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michael P. Fay: Encyclopedia Ii - Michael P. Fay - Aftermath
Fay returned to the United States to live with his father. He did several television interviews and there was even talk of a book or movi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michael Madsen: Encyclopedia Ii - Michael Madsen - Private Life
Madsen has five children, all boys. He has been noted to say that he appears in movies of lower quality in order to support his family [1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fahrenheit 451: Encyclopedia Ii - Fahrenheit 451 - Influence On Popular Culture
The title of Bradbury's book has become a well-known byword amongst those who oppose censorship, in much the way George Orwell's 1984 has...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethel And Julius Rosenberg: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethel And Julius Rosenberg - In Fiction
The Book of Daniel, a 1971 novel by E. L. Doctorow, is loosely based on the Rosenberg case; the 1983 film Daniel, starring Timothy Hutton...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marquis De Sade: Encyclopedia Ii - Marquis De Sade - Appraisal And Criticism
Simone de Beauvoir (in Must we burn Sade?) and other writers have later attempted to locate traces of a radical philosophy of freedom in ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sibylline Books: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sibylline Books
Sibylline Books The story of the origin of the Sibylline Books of the Romans tells how a mysterious old woman appeared to Tarquinius S...   » Read the article