"Seven Civil War Stories Your Teacher Never Told You"

Mental Floss Magazine gives us a list of untold stories from the Civil War. For example, women in combat: "Hundreds of women on both sides pulled a Mulan, assuming male identities ... women's suffrage and being a man meant that you could manage your monthly $13 wages independently." Seven Civil War stories your teacher never told you (CNN & Mental Floss) ...

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The Trouble with Magic

... off this fan-written work. Notes: For pensive1 . Late, prompt is late. Yeah. Never mind. Approximately 2300 words. This prompt takes place after Civil War has started, but at the shaky point where sides are being chosen before the big battle. Stephen Strange has asked people not to call on him, so...

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The Age of Wordiness

... to get excited about. Needless to say I would really adore historical reenactment of the Victorian Era, and none of that mucking about in the Civil War: I want something much less muddy, something that does not involve me sleeping outdoors. I want English house-parties on country estates, afternoon strolls in ...

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A past, personal rant on the Northern media's anti-Southern bias

... a doubt on the reverse. In addition, they've tore down every preconceived notion I've received from Northern media. Truly, If you want to go back to the Civil War, most of the main media was Northern-based to a degree, wasn't it? Oh, there was Southern media, I'm sure, but most of the ...

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Ed Dead: Death During Wartime

...t run at you full-speed if their knees are tremblin'." Ed smiled at General Anderson. The war, one he didn't even necessarily believe in, had gone on long enough for both of them... in each hand. Knives were at Ed's side, but he didn't care if he ran out of bullets. The Civil War zombies walked slowly towards New Orleans and Ed stared them down, unwavering. He could see that, even though the virus ...

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Hello! A small question about good times to take the GREs...

...is the relationship between African-American intellectuals (people such as Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, and other such luminaries) and religion from the end of the Civil War up to now. I was told it might be wise to hold off from going to grad school immediately and actually take a year off--aside ...

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Thoms, Applegate, Hartman and More Will Bring Civil War NYC to Life in Banished Children Reading

... Reading Series will present Kelly Younger's adaptation, Banished Children of Eve, a Civil War-era drama set in New York City ...). According to Irish Rep notes, "Set in New York City during the Civil War years, Banished Children of Eve echoes with Stephen Foster songs and the ...whose lives all intersect. As tensions surrounding emigration, war, and racial strife reach a flashpoint and ...

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Civil War II

Why is hardly anyone talking about the utter lunacy that the Georgia state senate voted 43 to 1 to support? Why do people go around accusing Democrats of being "anti-American" for any un-Republican statements they ever make, yet when the Georgia state senate votes overwhelmingly to secede from the United States and declare the United States "disbanded" as a nation, nobody seems to get ...

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War

Well, recently many civil wars going on around the world, Somalia, ... There are tons of movies about war, which could be Medal of Honor...feel something like people see the war as perspective of macro and micro...almost forgot, we, public see the war as macro also. We see war...the number and situation. Like Iraq war is good example people feel .... I hope people stop the war just one word, "Memento Mori" ...

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War Behind the Words

... 5,500, down from 45,000 at the start of the war. The Numbers drop away considerableafter that, with 16 of the 19 ...of preparation, given to their soldieries by U.S.A. to squelch civil tempestuousness in two of its outlying regions. With all this info, ...a pictureof a true alliance, an thought that perished in Second world war. These types of statements function justly in dishonoringthe U.S. military,...

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