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The Professor and the Madman
1998-11-08T22:59:23-05:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/capitol.jpgMr. Winchester discussed his book, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, about Dr. W. C. Minor, a certified lunatic who contributed many entries to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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