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The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one’s one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas — a place where history comes to life.

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About John Frederick Thanos

John Frederick Thanos

John Frederick Thanos

John Frederick Thanos (c. 1951 - May 17, 1994) was convicted in 1992 of the murders of Billy Winebrenner, Gregory Allen Taylor, and Melody Pistorio. Thanos waived his appeals and refused to fight his death sentence after he was convicted. He was executed in 1994 by the state of Maryland by lethal injection, aged 43, becoming the first person to be executed in Maryland since 1976 when the death penalty was reinstated. His last word was "Adios".

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