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List of books banned by governments. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In many territories, distribution, promotion, or certain translations of the Bible have historically been prohibited or impeded. See Censorship of the Bible.[1] Many countries throughout the world have their own methods of restricting access to books, although the prohibitions vary strikingly from one country to another. [citation needed] Despite the opposition from the American Library Association (ALA), books continue to be banned by school and public libraries across the United States. This is usually the result of complaints from parents, who find particular books not appropriate for their children (e.g., books about sexual orientation such as And Tango Makes Three).

In many libraries, including the British Library and the Library of Congress, erotic books are housed in separate collections in restricted access reading rooms. Albania[edit] Argentina[edit] Australia[edit] Austria[edit] Bangladesh[edit] Belgium[edit] Bosnia and Herzegovina[edit] Chile[edit] List of commonly challenged books in the US. In the United States, many books have been challenged by a variety of groups and agencies to prevent a particular work from being read by the general public. [citation needed] In recent years, it has become more common for those challenging the availability of a book to do so on a local level, targeting public libraries and school libraries. Many communities have a formal process by which a citizen may challenge the public availability of a work. List[edit] See also[edit] List of books banned by governments References[edit]

List of last known speakers of languages. Any language is determined to be an extinct language when the last native or fluent speaker of that language dies. There are some 500 languages out of a total of 6,000 being classified as nearly extinct because "only a few elderly speakers are still living".[1] Last known speakers of languages[edit] See also[edit] Notes[edit] Jump up ^ Believed to have been the last monoglot Cornish speaker, as opposed to other speakers such as Dolly Pentreath who could also speak English. References[edit] Lists of endangered languages. In order to be listed, a language must be classified as "endangered" in an academic source quoted. SIL Ethnologue (2005) lists 473 out of 6,909 living languages inventorized (6.8%) as "nearly extinct", indicating cases where "only a few elderly speakers are still living"; this figure dropped to 6.1% as of 2013.[1] In order to judge if a language is endangered, the number of speakers is less important than the age distribution; There are languages in Indonesia reported with as many as two million native speakers alive now, but all of advancing age, with little or no transmission to the young.

On the other hand, while there are 30,000 Ladin speakers left, almost all children still learn it as their mother tongue, thus Ladin is not endangered in the 21st century. UNESCO distinguishes four levels of endangerment in languages, based on intergenerational transfer:[2] Vulnerable Most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home). Definitely endangered. Dictionary of chemical formulas. This is a list of common chemical compounds with chemical formulas and CAS numbers, indexed by formula. This complements alternative listing at inorganic compounds by element. There is no complete list of organic compounds, since by nature the list would be infinite. Note: There are elements for which spellings may differ, such as aluminum/aluminium, sulfur/sulphur, and cesium/caesium.

Tables to be merged[edit] A[edit] B[edit] C[edit] Ca–Cu[edit] D[edit] E[edit] F[edit] G[edit] H[edit] I[edit] K[edit] L[edit] M[edit] N[edit] O[edit] P[edit] R[edit] S[edit] T[edit] U[edit] V[edit] W[edit] Y[edit] Z[edit] External links[edit] List of Emotions. The contrasting and categorisation of emotions describes how emotions are thought to relate to each other.

Various recent proposals of such groupings are described in the following sections. Contrasting basic emotions[edit] The following table,[1] based on a wide review of current theories, identifies and contrasts the fundamental emotions according to a set of definite criteria. The three key criteria used include mental experiences that: have a strongly motivating subjective quality like pleasure or pain;are in response to some event or object that is either real or imagined;motivate particular kinds of behaviour. The combination of these attributes distinguish the emotions from sensations, feelings and moods.

HUMAINE's proposal for EARL (Emotion Annotation and Representation Language)[edit] The emotion annotation and representation language (EARL) proposed by the Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion (HUMAINE) classifies 48 emotions.[2] Parrott's emotions by groups[edit] Suicide Notes. A suicide note or death note is a message left behind by a person who intends to commit suicide. It is estimated that 25–30% of suicides are accompanied by a note. According to Gelder, Mayou and Geddes (2005) one in six leaves a suicide note. The content can be a plea for absolution or blaming family and friends for life's failings.[1] However, incidence rates may depend on ethnicity, method of suicide, and cultural differences, and may reach rates as high as 50% in certain demographics.[2][3] A suicide message can be a written note, an audio message, or a video.

Reasons[edit] Some fields of study such as sociology, psychiatry and graphology, have investigated the reasons why people who commit suicide leave a note. According to Olsen (2005), the most common reasons that people contemplating suicide choose to write a suicide note include one or more of the following:[4] Notable people who left suicide notes[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] List of Chord Progressions.