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Organization:
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JMRL: Central Library
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Description:
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The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary by Simon Winchester.
The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking.
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Address:
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Central Library
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201 E. Market Street
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Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
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Date:
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Thursday, 9/16/2010
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Start Time:
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12:00 PM
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End Time:
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1:00 PM
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