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The Man Who Pioneered Libraries and Sexual Harassment

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

I Fucking Love the Metric System

Dewey first grew obsessed with the number 10 in high school. His birthday was December 10th, 1851, which was exactly 52 years after the French assembly adopted the meter bar as a standard unit of measurement. Melville started attending the Hungerford Collegiate Institute when he was 16. He's just that's he's a it's a thing for him. That's his father's son, Holy Ghost.

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