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An "A" sticker on a car was the lowest priority of gasoline rationing and entitled the car owner to 3 to 4 US gallons (11 to 15 L; 2.5 to 3.3 imp gal) of gasoline per week. "B" stickers were issued to workers in the military industry, entitling their holder to up to 8 US gallons (30 L; 6.7 imp gal) of gasoline per week.
Year Titles Notes References 1 United States: 2013 275,232 New titles and re-editions [3] 2 China: 2013 208,418 New titles and re-editions [3] 3 United Kingdom: 2018 188,000 [4] 4 Japan: 2017 139,078 New titles and re-editions [5] 5 Russia: 2019 115,171 [6] 6 Iran: 2018 102,691 New and revised [7] 7 France: 2018 106,799 [4] 8 India: 2013 90,000
Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [1] [2] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month. By the time the ...
In April 2022, nonprofit organization PEN America found that 1,586 book bans targeting 1,145 unique books had occurred in the past nine months. [8] Also in April, the ALA published its annual report on book censorship, finding that there were 729 attempts to remove school, university and library materials in 2021, resulting in 1,597 book ...
Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [ 1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in 1637 in modern-day Quincy ...
Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk.It was Palahniuk's first published novel, and follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia.The protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups, after his doctor remarks that insomnia is not "real suffering" and that he should find out what it is really like to suffer.
In an industry that sees 500,000 to 1,000,000 new titles published each year in the United States alone, there are ... own book club picks. “There are very specific types of books that make for ...
Oprah's Book Club. Oprah's Book Club was a book discussion club segment of the American talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey started the book club in 1996, selecting a new book, usually a novel, for viewers to read and discuss each month. [1] [2] [3] In total, the club recommended 70 books ...