Five Novels That Have Been Banned From The Bookshelves
If you haven't heard the news, Mark Twain has been censored. Auburn University Montgomery professor, Alan Gribben, has "sivilized" Twain. He has removed the "N word" out of one of Twain's novels (which appears a total of 219 times) and has replaced it with the word "slave". According to Gribben, it helps to make the book less "injurious" and "hurtful". Not how Twain wrote it, but more politically correct. This isn't the first time this has happened. With the recent controversy of Mark Twain's classic novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" being reprinted and censored, here is a list of other books that have been removed from Library shelves due to unsuitable words that may bother some readers. Some of them are rather ironic when it comes to the banning of books! Read more...
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Five People Born on May Day
Today is May 1, 2010 (also known as May Day) and the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 244 days left in the year 2010. According the Mayan calendar, there are 965 days till the end of the current cycle. On this date, in 1776, secret society, the Illuminati is established in Upper Bavaria - despite what Dan Brown writes about. Here are five people born on this day. Read more...
