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Modern Folk Lore and Cultural Revelations
Of the many older books on my dorm room bookshelf (including some older texts and local histories), one always seems to catch the eye of my visitors. Bound in a hard blue cover, Tom Burnam’s 1975 book The Dictionary of Misinformation debunks many of the myths and legends surrounding famous proverbs and sayings. From the meaning of “assault and…
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Posted in Student Blog Project 2013
Tagged Gherman Titov, History, Know Your Meme, Millennials, Popular Culture, Society, Space Race, syndicated, Technology, UrbanDictionary, USSR
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