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PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools.
Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.
From a statute that could keep Bigfoot from harm to punishment for carrying too much gum, there are countless bizarre and antiquated laws in the United States and abroad. 41 Weird Laws From Around ...
Oregon has several strange laws still technically enforceable. Laws involving fortune-telling and playing golf in parks are among the state's oddest. Odd Oregon laws that may surprise you, such as ...
Crazy: Benjamin Lebert: Obscene language, sexual themes 2000 — 77 — Crazy Lady! Jane Leslie Conly: Offensive language 1993 — 45 62 Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat: Alvin Schwartz: Supernatural themes 1974 — — 47 Cujo: Stephen King: Violence, obscene language, explicit sex scenes 1983 — — 49 The Curious Incident of the Dog in ...
The Laws of Life: Halliday Sutherland: 1935 Non-fiction Banned in the Irish Free State for discussing sex education and Calendar-based contraceptive methods – even though The Laws of Life had been granted a Cum permissu superiorum endorsement by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster. [169] Honourable Estate: Vera Brittain: 1936 Novel
Here are the 20 best new book releases this week: December 3-9, 2024. Okay, you survived Thanksgiving! Heck, maybe it was a triumph! The mashed potatoes! Those pies! And now the end of year ...
All books in the series have been faced with bans, and the American Library Association reported them as being among the most challenged books in 2013 and 2014. The books were most commonly banned due to assertions that the main characters are disrespectful to authority and that the humor is inappropriate.