Sentences with phrase «during the civil war»

The game also has a multiplayer component set during the civil war (2 years before the first game) with a few different modes for you to try out.

All had experienced multiple traumatic events during the civil war, but only 134 of them had been diagnosed with PTSD.

Students create a diagram to compare things done to combat boredom today and during Civil War times.

They link at least some of the attacks during the civil war to the very top of the Syrian government - the president and his inner circle.

Their game had terrible music, poor voice acting and a story that made no sense (why would a cleaning lady still clean during a civil war?).

Then there's the dark subject matter — draining children immune to the disease of blood to cure others — and a whole final act that is set during a civil war - zone.

Hamm, right, stars as Mason Skiles, a U.S. diplomat in Lebanon during civil war in 1972, refereeing disputes in a cultural boiling pot of Arabs, Muslims and Israel.

Both were health care giants with proud histories — Squibb had supplied medications to the Union Army during the Civil War and marketed the first electric toothbrush; Bristol - Myers provided penicillin to U.S. forces during World War II and briefly ran Palomar Pictures, the studio responsible for The Stepford Wives.

Director Cary Fukunaga gives a harsh look at survival by spotlighting a young boy who becomes a child soldier during a civil war in Africa.

Students use library or provided online resources to create a museum exhibit or a fictional journal or newspaper account about life during the Civil War era.

Grant has been widely recognised as a superior military tactician for leading the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War under the supervision of President Abraham Lincoln, winning key battles at Shiloh and Vicksburg.

Delve into the fraught, dangerous world of the South during the Civil War with Susan Rivers» haunting novel.

Based on the true history of Town Line, New York — the only town north of the Mason Dixon line to secede from the Union — readers are treated to a heartbreaking and redemptive story that captures both the ugliness and beauty of life during the Civil War.

SYNOPSIS: At a girls» school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in.

Liar Temptress Soldier Spy By Karen Abbott Harper Perennial • $ 16.99 • ISBN 9780062092908 In a history book that reads like a suspense novel, Abbott portrays four women who operated as spies during the Civil War — two for the Union and two for the Confederacy.

Dedicated to themes exploring the veracity of archives and photographic documents in the public realm, the role of memory and narrative within discourses of conflict, and the construction of histories of art in the Arab world, Raad's work is informed by an upbringing in Lebanon during the civil war (1975 - 1990) and recent socio - economic and military policies that have shaped the Middle East in the past few decades.

These exams were put in place during the Civil War when New York wanted to make sure that state - funded private schools were not admitting students willy - nilly so as to get state aid while helping young men avoid the draft.

Over the hotel's 200 - year history, it has hosted 26 presidents and switched between Confederate and Union troops during the Civil War.

Researchers at all levels can explore the material and create authoritative historical accounts of the experiences of families, women, soldiers, immigrants, politicians, African Americans, and farmers during the Civil War years.

An art teacher might tell the story or introduce students to some of the printing techniques used during the Civil War era.

Spanning 155 years, Gun Country brings together more than 40 works, ranging from an albumen print by Timothy H. O'Sullivan taken during the Civil War; photographs documenting pivotal scenes of 1968, including the assassination of Bobby Kennedy; to modern and contemporary works by artists Andy Warhol, Carroll Dunham, and others.

The first sites in the Harbor area to be designated as HCM monuments were both built during the Civil War on land owned by Phinneas Banning.

I knew almost nothing about Cuba and the role of other countries during the Civil War, so found these details very interesting.

In the Kingdom of Bohemia, you play as a villager whose town gets destroyed during the civil war of the 1400s.

Anesthesia was first delivered during the Civil War by trained nurses, and nurses today still provide anesthesia services.

The director's best - known and most - loved movie (at least until now) may be 2006's Pan's Labyrinth, a dark allegorical fairy tale also set in Spain during the Civil War.

«We are going to the courts,» said Savimbi, son of the UNITA founder Jonas Savimbi, whose death in 2002 during the civil war against Dos Santos's forces paved the way for a ceasefire after 27 years of fighting.

Grant issued an order to expel Jews from three states during the Civil War while Seymour's campaign slogan in 1868 was «This is a White Man's Country; Let White Men Rule.»

Krishnapriya Tharmakrishnar (b. 1987) （ Image: Impression 2 - 1, 2015, Nail drawing on tracing paper ） is an emerging artist lives and works in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, which experienced fierce fighting during the civil war from the early 1980s.

The motto IN GOD WE TRUST was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War.

The Democrats were the ones who were fighting for slavery during the Civil War, which is really no different than today if you think about it.

For $ 3 or $ 2 enjoy Christmas in the Piedmont During the Civil War at Bennett Place State Historic Site in Durham Dec. 16, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. featuring living historians who demonstrate cooking and gift - wrapping in the 19th century.

«Those days during the civil war were as real as they come.

A statement allegedly issued by the government of Eritrea is reportedly ordering men to marry at least two wives due to acute shortage of men caused by enormous casualties suffered during the civil war with Ethiopia.

«I learned how things could have been different if certain things hadn't happened during the Civil War,» Adam said.

The 1971 original was directed by Don Siegel and cast Clint Eastwood as an injured Union soldier who is imprisoned in a Confederate girls» boarding school during the Civil War.

Fort Worth was hit hard economically during the Civil War period.

The countryside I traversed had little natural beauty, and most of the wild animals had been killed during the civil war; the souvenirs were five times as expensive as similar items in other countries; the Portuguese - influenced food was bland and boring; and when I asked for a doggie bag to take my leftovers back to my hotel, I got charged five dollars for the bag.

This small country, just north of Israel along the Mediterranean Sea, has seen its share of conflict — particularly during a civil war from 1975 to 1990.

... Don't forget that these same household codes were used by many Americans during the Civil War era to justify their owning of slaves.

The character, as Ray apparently sees him, is not the charismatic hero of legend, but rather an angry young man, driven by the atrocities his family suffered during the Civil War to revenge himself on Yankees by stealing their money, first from banks, then trains.

Even though Fort Point — completed in 1861 — never saw action during the Civil War as the advent of rifled artillery made this kind of fortification obsolete, Chief Engineer Joseph Strauss redesigned the bridge during the construction phase to preserve the fortress as a «fine example of the mason's art.»

The hotel was near the center of the action during the Civil War, specifically for the Battle of Gettysburg and President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

In part, slavery is flourishing because today's slaves are cheap: It is estimated that a healthy slave in America during the Civil War era would have cost about $ 40,000 in today's dollars.

The churches were intensely active on both sides during the Civil War.

But since this was also during the civil war and rise of the KKK, this might have been done to «save» the church from further violence against its members.

I had to remember that he was very young and to not compare him to todays youth but to keep his age in perspective as to what other young men were called upon to do during the Civil War.