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Book Burning Facts

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Book burning is the ritual burning of books and other manuscripts, often for religious, cultural and political reasons. Those who burn books often want to eradicate the ideas and history of other religious, political or ethnic groups or impose their own version of morality or culture on a society. B

How to Understand Gems

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The term "gemstone" normally refers to minerals that have been cut and polished. Not every mineral can become a gemstone, though. Minerals with a particular visible beauty that exhibit both a natural stability and hardness make excellent candidates. These minerals also need to be in masses or crysta

What Are Live Bookmarks?

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Mozilla Firefox includes a live bookmarks feature. Live bookmarks appear as a bookmarks folder in Firefox, except that the contents of this folder is a collection of recently added links from the website on which the live bookmark was created. Live bookmarks use Web feeds to automatically fetch and