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crln-20207	Eberhart, George M.	New Publications	2002	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2381	91	63	Libraries in Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and South Africa receive special treatment, but m any less familiar topics are also covered, for example: the two occasions in Islamic history w hen observatories w ere destroyed for religious reasons; the 17th-century English pam phle­ teer William Prynne, w ho had his ears cut off and his cheeks branded with the letters “SL” for “seditious libeller”; the story of banned Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, w ho w orked briefly at the National Library in Havana; offi­ cial c e n so rsh ip in T rinidad a n d T obago, Gambia, Nepal, and ancient Rome; the ru­ m or-saturated history of snuff movies; and Jishukusei, the Japanese form of self-censor­ ship practiced since 1945. Included is the fa­ m ous C harles “Black B a r t” B o w le s , w h o r o b b e d 28 sta g e s in eight years and posed as a gentleman miner in San Francisco betw een holdups; Bill Miner, the legendary train-robbing “Grey Fox,” w ho spent m uch of his life in vari­ ous prisons; Jo h n and C harley R uggles, w h o w e re ly n c h e d in Redding in 1892 after a botched and bloody robbery; and the Tom Bell gang, w ho engi­ neered the first stagecoach holdup in Califor­ nia in 1856.	cache/crln-20207.pdf	txt/crln-20207.txt