Sentences with phrase «close of the civil war»

On this 150th anniversary of the close of the Civil War, and of Lincoln's death, it is well to remember Lincoln's story and its lessons for our age.

According to the article, Lincoln will focus on «the last four months of the president's life and the political strategizing he undertook at the close of the Civil War to ensure that slavery would be forever outlawed.»

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China had said the live - fire drills would happen on Wednesday off the city of Quanzhou, in between two groups of islands close to China's coast but which Taiwan has controlled since 1949, when defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island at the end of the Chinese civil war.

The crisis — spurred largely by Syria's civil war — has caused numerous political spats, leading to the construction of walls around certain countries and the closing of borders between others.

(CNN)- President Abraham Lincoln was a «theist and a rationalist» who doubted «the immortality of the soul,» a close friend said in a letter that provides a rare, intimate glimpse into the Civil War president's religious views.

These two intelligent and able assistants were very close to and completely trusted by Lincoln throughout the Civil War, and they were aware early on of Lincoln's greatness.

Carter then proceeds to show how various events (like the Civil War), conditions (like the closing of the frontier), ideas (like popular views of religion and science), and personalities (like Presidents and cultural arbiters) have challenged, imperiled, undermined, stretched, invigorated, defended, or nourished that republican tradition.

In 1833, after an exhausting civil war, «liberals» came into power, abolished tithes, closed a number of monasteries and convents, and nationalized their properties.

Our country is in a civil war... and sadly the Republican party branded itself to those who are far right... Romney is a moderate as many of us are but sadly it was the only party that came close to the freedoms and principles he, like many of us believe in.

Post Civil War, the bands of people — Quantrill's «Raiders» — who killed reconstruction were as close as anything, really.

As government forces fired live rounds into crowds of unarmed civilians, Egypt took a step closer to civil war.

A nurse during the Civil War, Whitman witnessed its carnage up close and his post-war writings reflect sorrow and compassion for the wounded and dead, with the Memorial including his words, «Agonies are one of my changes of garments, I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.»

«Write what you know» is the old saying, so playing things close to the bone can be thrilling, especially if one takes the personalities of key players from the Third Reich and mixes them with modern - day politicians who set about turning a civil war - torn, modern, democratic British political party into a terrifying dictatorship.

It seems, on close reading of his history of liberty from the English Civil War onwards, the fundamental shift occurred not in the last ten years but in the last 100.

The closest we get to acknowledging the Marvel universe is a reference to the death of the father of T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), an event that happened in 2016's Captain America: Civil War, and a bad guy who first popped up in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Instead of trying to squeeze in every facet of the man's storied life, Lincoln chooses to focus on the period as the Civil War drew to a bloody, heart - rending close and the president, who had chosen to form a cabinet made up largely of people who opposed him, was sticking to his campaign to abolish slavery.

The Civil War is slowly coming to a close, and Inman dreams of returning home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina, where Ada Monroe waits for him.

With Captain America: Civil War so close to release, the publicity has been really ramping up as of late.

Directed by Daniel Barber, «The Keeping Room» «focuses on the violent resilience and dramatic camaraderie of three Southern women as their home is besieged during the purges at the close of the American Civil War.

The next closest in Marvel's movies is Iron Man 2 with $ 623.9 m, followed by Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: Civil War, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Avengers.

Something of a hot topic among fans on Twitter, the title relates to Steve Rogers» intensely close relationship with Bucky Barnes, one of the key reasons Rogers turns on his fellow Avengers in the recent Captain America: Civil War.

Shot on quasi-grainy digital at close range and evenly lit in autumnal tones, Zachary Treitz's Civil War - set Men Go to Battle lacks the polish and bombast of much costlier historical dramas.

After close to a decade of watching these heroes come into their own, flying around Earth and transporting themselves to different universes, Civil War is the first truly human movie about a team of superhuman individuals.

SEE THIS MOVIE IF: you are in the mood to be transported back to 1865 and come as close as possible to experiencing the conflict and grief of the young country just out of civil war.

January 29, 2015 • The country's new government says it is thinking of a new investigation into reports of extrajudicial killings in the closing chapter of the island nation's 26 - year civil war.

«Lincoln» Synopsis: Based on Doris Kearns Goodwin «s biography of Lincoln, «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,» the Steven Spielberg film stars Daniel Day - Lewis as the martyred president and follows the last several months of Lincoln's life as he faced violent opposition, on the battlefield and in the White House, as the Civil War gasped to a close, concluding with that fateful visit to Ford's Theatre.

This comedic Young Guns-esque romp follows Jesse James (Colin Farrell) from the closing days of the Civil War, when he rode with Quantrill's Rangers alongside his brother Frank (Gabriel Macht) and their cousins Cole and Bob Younger (Scott Caan and Will McCormack, respectively), until the peak of his celebrity as a Robin Hood - like outlaw.

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After a furtive glance or two in «Avengers: Age of Ultron,» the superheroic couple may be inching closer to a love connection in the new film — while also being pitted against each other in the superhero civil war.

The initial teaser trailer for Sofia Coppola's remake of The Beguiled was long on ethereal atmosphere and short on plot, but a newly released trailer for the film gives us a little more insight into the sinister events going on behind closed doors at a Southern girls» boarding school during the Civil War.

Following the close of «Phase Two» in 2015, which includes the release of a second Avengers film (Age of Ultron) and the long - gestating Ant - Man (starring Paul Rudd and featuring a more irreverent tone), «Phase 3» begins on May 6, 2016 with Captain America: Civil War.

From a series of articles that examine «What Kids Can Do with Challenging, Inspiring Schoolwork,» this posting gives a vivid close - up glimpse into a second grade classroom in Reno, Nevada, where students are using Core Knowledge Language Arts materials to study the Civil War.

I have to admit that I wasn't thrilled that another book involving a woman / survivor set at the time of the American Civil War (OK, my book is not set at the time of the American Civil War, but dang close) was coming out around the time of The Orphan Mother.

New York, 1879: After an epic snow storm ravages the city of Albany, Dr. Mary Sutter, a former Civil War surgeon, begins a search for two little girls, the daughters of close friends killed by the storm who have vanished without a trace.

During the Civil War, he and his so - called Scientific Lazzaroni, a close network self - mockingly named for Florentine beggars, created a national scientific enterprise with themselves in charge, soliciting Congress to found the National Academy of Sciences.

And Nell has a knack for the kind of close listening and bold action that made Pinkerton detectives famous in Civil War - era America.

Although Cyprus is part of Europe and in the EU it is close to the Middle East, which is a bit unnerving when you realise only a hundred miles away there is a civil war raging in Syria.Tom has been blogging about Cyprus for many years and in this book we go from corruption in Cyprus to refugees from Syria landing in Cyprus and the RAF bombing the terrorist group ISIS.To...

Places worth mentioning include the National Museum of Civil War Medicine for bringing yourself closer to the history of this town, Baker Park for walks through nature and Carrol Creek Linear Park which is well worth admiring; Beautiful at day, astonishing at night.

Civil War pensions and company pensions came close, too, but it wasn't until late 19th century Europe that the idea of Social Security in a modern industrialized world truly come to be.

Via email, I asked her about the genesis of the exhibition: «As a child, I had wondrous and strange experiences at Coney Island... My family and I still go there and we believe in its never - ending potential for magic... [This is the] first exhibition to look at the site's enduring status as a muse for artists, from its rise in popularity as a seaside resort in the Civil War era through the closing of its space - age amusement park, Astroland, after decades of urban decline.»

Meanwhile, in October, Lebanon's National Museum, which hardly ever does anything at all, quietly reopened its lower floor galleries, which have been closed since the end of the civil war, a quarter of a century ago.

Around one - half of all Syrians have been forced to flee their homes because of the unending, devastating civil war, mass human rights violations and acts of terrorism that have been their unrelenting reality for close to four years now.

Places worth mentioning include the National Museum of Civil War Medicine for bringing yourself closer to the history of this town, Baker Park for walks through nature and Carrol Creek Linear Park which is well worth admiring; Beautiful at day, astonishing at night.

It was largely unaffected by the Civil War until the closing weeks of the conflict, and avoided the guerrilla fighting that occurred in some of the neighboring counties.

The last meeting of the Confederate cabinet took place here in the closing days of the Civil War.