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It has also been said that due to wartime censorship, the publishers did not want to print some of White's more strident anti-War sentiments ( which are very prevalent in The Book of Merlyn ).

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* Postal censorship and border control or customs seizure of publications deemed obscene solely on the basis of them containing material related to homosexuality even when they contain no erotic or pornographic material ; see also Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium

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Bruno had a reputation for unscrupulousness, and was often accused of exploiting Greenwich Village residents for profit — he used to charge tourists admission to watch Bohemians paint — but he was a strong opponent of censorship and was willing to risk prosecution by publishing Barnes's 1915 collection of " rhythms and drawings ," The Book of Repulsive Women.

A small pamphlet consisting of four poems, The Love Book provoked censorship with its poem, " To Fuck with Love.

In 1933 Cerf won United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, a landmark court case against government censorship, and thereafter published James Joyce's unabridged Ulysses for the first time in the United States ( one chapter had been published in a Chicago-based literary magazine, which had led to its being found " a work of obscenity ").

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" In fact, in an attempt to prove Diamond did not practice censorship, the company joined DC Comics in 1993 to raise money for the industry watchdog the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

His most recent book, You Can't Read this Book, was published by HarperCollins in 2012 and deals with censorship.

Under L ’ Estrange, the antennae of state censorship prickled at the very mention of the monarch and he famously objected to the following lines from Milton ’ s Paradise Lost, Book I:

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Their publishing company, Watch Tower, and official position magazine, The Watchtower, have asserted: " Ever since The Watchtower began to be published in July 1879 it has looked ahead into the future ... No, The Watchtower is no inspired prophet, but it follows and explains a Book of prophecy the predictions in which have proved to be unerring and unfailing till now.

The meaning of the word " Biafra " has been explained in the Book, " Biafra or Nigerian Presidency: What the Ibos Want " where the author delved into the etimology and etiology of the words " Biafra ", " Ibo " and " Igbo " and proved that " Biafra " is an ancient word in the Igbo language which was lost many centuries ago just like other Igbo words have been lost.

Techno proved so popular that he was awarded his own strip for a limited run and appeared in The Beano Book of Amazing Facts.

The Book of Bebb tetralogy proved to be one of Buechner ’ s most well-known works.

Similarly he claimed that archaeology had proved the essential historicity of the Book of Exodus, and the conquest of Canaan as described in the book of Joshua and the book of Judges.

For example, in the first construction of Book 1, Euclid used a premise that was neither postulated nor proved: that two circles with centers at the distance of their radius will intersect in two points.

That same year, she again starred alongside Stewart in Bell, Book and Candle, a comedy tale of modern-day witchcraft, that proved to be a box office success.

To strengthen his position, there were Luther's own statements in his sermons on the Book of Genesis, as well as historical precedents which proved to his satisfaction that it was impossible for anything to be un-Christian that God had not punished in the case of the patriarchs, who in the New Testament were held up as models of faith.

Charlesworth summarized the current scholarly consensus, saying: " It became obvious that Milik had not proved his position, as Fitzmyer pointed out as soon as The Book of Enoch had been published.

Fawn Brodie wrote in her biography of Smith that it " may never be proved that Joseph saw View of the Hebrews before writing the Book of Mormon, but the striking parallelisms between the two books hardly leave a case for mere coincidence.

Knox attacked Cox as a pluralist, Cox accused Knox of treason to the emperor Charles V. This proved the more dangerous charge: Knox and his followers were expelled, and the Prayer Book of 1552 was restored.

In the New York Times Book Review, critic Eric Weisbard wrote, " In the decade Azerrad covers, indie America proved that world-class rock could be created outside corporate structures .... Our Band Could Be Your Life passionately resurrects thirteen indie groups ... Azerrad is adept at drawing out musicians ' war stories -- and this bare-bones movement was full of them.

To his credit, McManaman never spoke ill of the Galáctico policy's effects on him during his tenure, only critiquing the policy and ultimately describing it in his autobiography " El Macca " ( a book that was shortlisted as the William Hill Sports Book of the Year ), in 2004 as the " Disneyfication of Real Madrid " upon his departure from the club ; a piece of foresight that proved telling for the future as the club never reached its heights in the period ensuing with the policy, and with the term becoming somewhat pejorative to this day.

Whence with relative ease is proved Proposition 10 in Book XIII of Euclid's Elements: The square on the side of the pentagon equals the sum of the squares on the sides of the hexagon and the decagon inscribed in the same circle.

Of historic interest is Book Three-The Incontrovertible Fact of Evolution, comprising five chapters ; I The fact to be proved, II The evidence in the rocks, III The evidence from plant and animal structure, IV The evidence from the variation and distribution of living things, V The evolution of Man.

After small parts in the films 13 Hrs and A Closed Book, he returned to TV as Sir David Bryant in the 2010 series of New Tricks, in what proved to be his final TV appearance.

The Book Club proved to be so successful that Ince took it on a full UK tour in 2006, the same year he won the Time Out Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy.

Professor Fredrik Book, Sweden's foremost critic of the period, acclaims it as follows: `` In this we have the verse of a painter ; ;

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

`` Do you still have The Book of the Dead ''??

The Book Pahlavi script, an abjad, had only twelve letters at one point, and may have had even fewer later on.

Instead, Anglicans have typically appealed to the Book of Common Prayer and its offshoots as a guide to Anglican theology and practice.

The Book of Enoch describes Sheol as divided into four compartments for four types of the dead: the faithful saints who await resurrection in Paradise, the merely virtuous who await their reward, the wicked who await punishment, and the wicked who have already been punished and will not be resurrected on Judgment Day.

The Book of Amos is set in a time when the people of Israel have reached a low point in their devotion to the God of Israel-the people have become greedy and have stopped following and adhering to their values.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

The 1552 and later editions of the Book of Common Prayer omitted the form of anointing given in the original ( 1549 ) version in its Order for the Visitation of the Sick, but most twentieth-century Anglican prayer books do have anointing of the sick.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

A total of eight copies of the Book of Daniel have been found at Qumran: two in Cave 1, five in Cave 4, and one in Cave 6.

Since Daniel was a statesman during the Persian conquests, the Book of Daniel could have been written in a period when the Persians had their greatest influence on Aramaic, believed to be in the mid 6th century BC.

The original core of the book, the first-person memoir, may have been combined with the core of the Book of Ezra around 400 BC.

Parts of the Book of Jeremiah have also been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls in cave 4 in Qumran.

Jerome's Prologue to Jeremiah says he excluded them: " And the Book of Baruch, his scribe, which is neither read nor found among the Hebrews, we have omitted, standing ready, because of these things, for all the curses from the jealous, to whom it is necessary for me to respond through a separate short work.

Despite their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.

" If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther.

Based on the view that the Ahasuerus of the Book of Tobit is identical with that of the Book of Esther, some have also identified him as Nebuchadnezzar's ally Cyaxares ( ruled 625 – 585 BCE ).

The Book of Jonah appears to have served less purpose in the Qumran community than other texts, as the writings make no references to it.

In the comics he fights along side the Marvel heroes against the heroes and people who have turned into zombies ( deadites ) while in search of the Necronomicon ( Book of the Dead ).

Traditional English Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian prayer books have borrowed from the Book of Common Prayer, and the marriage and burial rites have found their way into those of other denominations and into the English language.