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Snow White’s Slaves, Scotland’s Pharaoh, and Urban Myths
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March 13, 2016 by libroshombre

LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 479-4344 March 3, 2016 “Consider your origins,” the poet Dante suggested, adding “You were not …
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Category: Knowledge, libraries, Origins, public libraries, Uncategorized, Urban myths | Tags: Masterfile Premier, People's University, Scota, snopes.com, Snow White, World Daily News
Fact-checking, Skepticism, and Keeping Ahead of Computers
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June 3, 2015 by libroshombre

The origin of the word “debunking” came up in this space recently, and today I’m interested in debunking a myth …
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Category: degrees, public libraries, words | Tags: Dave Allred, David Mikkelson, degree mill, Factcheck.org, nick begich, openinternational university of sri lanka, People's University, Robert Schiller, rogue, snopes.com, Texas Navy, urban legends
Authoritative Answers, Questionable Acts, and Small-minded Men
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March 19, 2015 by libroshombre

“Ask Us Anything” is a regular feature of Popular Science Magazine written by Daniel Engber that might be offering more …
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Category: book burning, books, libraries, public libraries | Tags: body fat, books, crusaders, iraq, libraries, metoerite, popular science, public libraries, samuel johnson, smithsonian
Counting Words, Appreciating Hyphens, and Loathing Lowth
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March 9, 2015 by libroshombre

Every word counts in the world of publishing. Successful short stories writers make less than novelists, since their work amounts …
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Category: grammar, libraries, public libraries, words | Tags: editors, flash-fiction, hyphens, lee masterson, micro-fiction, robert lowth, Seguin, typewriter
Swapping Spit, Being Cold, and Getting Smart
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January 27, 2015 by libroshombre

Vladimir Nabokov’s opinion that, “revelation can be more dangerous than revolution,” resonated after reading about several new scientific discoveries. The …
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Category: authors, children, diseases, health, libraries, public libraries, reading, reading brain, science | Tags: cold, kissing, Nabokov, Ray Cronise, Strickland Gillilan, The Reading Mother, trichomoniasis, twins
Phantoms, Idiots, and Restrooms
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December 18, 2014 by libroshombre

Old Fort Phantom’s remains stand on a rise just north of Abilene, Texas, where I grew up. We boys usually …
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Category: amnners, health, history, libraries, manners, public libraries, restrooms, science | Tags: beano, flatulencem farts, health, libraries, male idiot theory, micro-organisms, microbiome, mit, public libraries, restrooms, toilets, vandalism
Raymond Chandler and the Mystery of Libraries
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October 23, 2014 by libroshombre

One thing that really sets hard-boiled detective writer Raymond Chandler apart is his attention to details and quick, precise descriptions of …
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Category: libraries, parts of speech, public libraries, reading well | Tags: Dallas Public Library, Describer's Dictionary, libraries public libraries, North Pole Branch Library, Raymond Chandler, reading well, Third Place

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