A Brief History On December 6, 1952, Vladimir Nabakov finished his novel Lolita. With a subject matter concerning a mature man and a young girl in a love affair, it was no surprise that prudes would find the subject “unfit” for public dissemination. The Soviets and the Nazis banned and burned many books that were not in line with their concepts; the Chinese go so far as to also censor the internet. Here 10 reviled written works that someone at one point in time or another wanted to ban are listed. Digging Deeper 10. Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler). Although the…
Browsing: December 6
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A Brief History Just after 4 pm on this date, December 6 in 1989, an apparently mentally disturbed Marc Lepine went to the Université de Montreal and entered the École Polytechnique building armed with a Ruger Mini-14 carbine, a knife, and murder in his heart fueled by a hatred for “feminists.” Digging Deeper Digging deeper we find a twenty-five-year old son of an Algerian father and French-Canadian mother who was instilled with a deep disrespect and hatred of women by his abusive father. Not fairing particularly well with his personal attempts to gain a college education, Lepine (born Gamil Gharbi,…
