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book burning

practice of destroying, often ceremoniously, books or other written material
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book burning

Summary

book burning has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1]

Key Facts

  • book burning is a type of book censorship[2].
  • book burning is a type of biblioclasm[3].
  • book burning's Commons category is recorded as Book burning[4].
  • book burning's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Book burnings[5].
  • book burning's described by source is recorded as Pax Leksikon[6].
  • book burning's has list is recorded as list of book-burning incidents[7].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include book censorship[2] and biblioclasm[3].

Why It Matters

book burning has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

Related Entities

Fahrenheit 451

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → book-burning
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: book-burning, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289910845|book burning (#289910845)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
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