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From: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Date: 20060524
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign issued the following news release:
The Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hosting a celebration for a new book conceived and born right under its roof.
The event, a book signing, discussion and reception, is in honor of local authors Gene Rinkel, a librarian at Illinois, and Margaret Rinkel, a former high school English teacher, and of their collaboration on "The Picshuas of H.G. Wells: A Burlesque Diary," published by the University of Illinois Press. ("Picshua" is a cockney pronunciation of "picture.")
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