
The Man Who Pioneered Libraries and Sexual Harassment
Behind the Bastards
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What Makes Someone a Bastard?
The story of Melville Dewey, who created a new spelling system for libraries in 1876. "It's just not one I've ever thought about for more than a minute," says writer and blogger Jamie Drexler. He writes that it is the kind of thing when we talk about like what makes someone a bastard does his goal was not to exclude people of color. But he also did not think about this kind of thing.
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