New Zealand s most overdue library books, 121 years late
27 Jan, 2021 07:28 PM
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Digital producer, Christchurch, NZ Heralddevon.bolger@nzme.co.nz
We have all been guilty of forgetting to return a library book on time but what happens when you forget for 121 years? A Herald investigation reveals the country s most overdue library books. Every council in the country was contacted and asked about their most overdue book.
Children s books appear to be the most commonly overdue, making up about 35 per cent of the responses.
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Here is the list of the country s most overdue library books:
Number one:
The True Story Of Albert Cashier, A Transgender Civil War Hero
By Allen McDuffee/Jan. 26, 2021 9:50 am EDT
On August 6, 1862, a young man by the name of Albert Cashier answered the call by President Abraham Lincoln to fight on behalf of the Union Army in the American Civil War. The 16,000 men would be no match for the hundreds of thousands serving in the Confederate States Army. Like the 2.5 million people who eventually joined the Union Army, Cashier did so as a volunteer. Cashier, who enlisted in the Union Army in Belvidere, Illinois, fought with the 95th Illinois Infantry, and was involved in some of the most important battles in the war, fighting in Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee and Louisiana.
Arturo Castañares
Publisher
Venerating the symbols, statues, leaders, and flag of the Confederate States of America has no place in our society now more than 155 years after the end of the war that nearly torn our country apart.
The debate on whether to protect or remove statues of Confederate leaders or their names on countless schools, streets, and even US military bases has raged on for years but has again become a hot topic in the wake of another round of protests about racial bias in America.
Some of the protests have included demands for the removal of Confederate statues and monuments in public parks and capitals around the South. Several statues have been vandalized and a few have even been pulled down by protesters over the past few weeks.
UNLV will retire Hey Reb! mascot but keep its Rebels nickname saying it refers to trailblazing spirit, not the Confederacy, after it removed a statue during summer BLM controversy
UNLV President Keith E. Whitfield said in a letter to students that for all intents and purposes the mascot had been retired since last spring
Whitfield noted that a number of other schools and some NFL teams do not have mascots
He added that the school did not have a mascot in the 1970s, as the school shifted away from another previous mascot that was deemed racist
In 1982, UNLV introduced Hey Reb! which was created by Mike Miller, who said it was inspired by the Western trailblazers of the 1800s
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