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I use the gullible.info module on my google homepage and i swear i saw this fact: "The private library of Fidel Castro is 15% larger than the Library of Congress"
Or something like that...i think the actual wording mentioned 15% more books.
Anyways, the google module seems to show the same facts over again sometimes and i hope that that fact comes rolling by again.
I searched for an answer and found nothing. Maybe i'm just going crazy. So, can anyone help me re-find it or verify it?
"The world's largest library is the private collection of Fidel Castro. It contains 13 percent more volumes than the Library of Congress."
From http://www.gullible.info/archive.php?m=2005-05 (May 3rd)
The world's largest library is the private collection of Fidel Castro. It contains 13 percent more volumes than the Library of Congress.
Right........how many books are in each? I read that the Library of Congress has far more than seven million.
Actually, that figure is a little low.
the LOC website website says:
"The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials..."
So, using that number, and a little algebra, we can figure out that Castro's library must have at least 3277E4, or 32,770,000 books.
Wow, that's a big library o_O
He apparently made it a national law (or perhaps an executive order or something equivalent) that his library is required to be larger than the U.S. Library of Congress, apparently an act of hubris.
That's what happens when you don't blacklist books. Anybody who censors is a [the rest of this post deleted by management.]
Does that mean Castro's library has more books or more things in general (like articles, documents, films)?
well i expect it will be more things in general - where could you possibly find 32 million books from??? there will be a lot of films, magazines, newspapers even - but again, i have no hard facts, merely speculation.
A great many of them are periodicals, such as magazines and comic books. Fidel is apparently a big fan of the work of the Hernandez brothers, who create Love & Rockets among other comics. An issue about 10 years ago even published a letter from him praising the comic.
True. The only complete collection of Cerberus: the Earth-Pig Born, in La Biblioteca de Fidel. I wish I'd been able to get in when I spent last winter in Cuba, but Fidel apparently is a bit concerned that an American will attempt to burn the place down. I can't say I blame him.
Bah. Pretend I inserted a verb above. Or wanted to use the edit key.
americans? he'd be bonkers to let that motley crew in there, they'd trash it!
Some of us yanks actually respect literary works....
Fidel is a bit paranoid, 24. America's been after him since he rose to power. He's concerned about assassination and then again about attempts to destroy his legacy.
Which would lead us to believe that a good amount of that '15%' is more than likely personal works that have seen limited distribution.
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