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From: Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Today in history, 1960
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:36:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-07-12, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
> Today in history, 1960: Harper Lee publishes her first novel, To Kill
> a Mockingbird. Noted for its treatment of a child's awakening to
> racism in the South, the book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
> It was an immediate success, eventually selling more than 40 million
> copies.

65 years later, Fox News calls it "To Woke a WokingBird"
hur-dee-dur-dee-dur.