Sentences with phrase «times of civil war»

Andrew Zimmern sinks his teeth into the foods that have sustained soldiers and civilians since the lean times of the Civil War and shaped a region's cuisine, from barbecued raccoon and squirrel stew to tooth - cracking hard tack.

She told me about her ancestors at the time of the Civil War.

The Second Great Awakening caused a proliferation of abolitionist groups that worked to end slavery in the U.S. around the time of the Civil War.

At the time of the Civil War, 262 of 288 college presidents were clergy.

For instance, when was the U.S. more Protestant, or biblicist, or evangelical than around 1861 - 1865, the time of the Civil War?

At that time the Methodist Protestant Church and the two great Methodist Churches, North and South, which had split at the time of the Civil War, reunited.

The taxes at the time of the Civil War were relatively short lived, and only one part in a broad tax strategy.

By the time of the Civil war, the political divide is about how much power should be given to various levels of government in a federal system (a debate which still rages).

The company, named Henry Thayer & Company, prospered and broadened its line of products and has been described as the largest manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in America at the time of the Civil War.

The story concerns the lives of four New England sisters — Jo (Katharine Hepburn), Amy (Joan Bennett), Meg (Frances Dee), and Beth (Jean Parker)-- during the time of the Civil War.

Starring Daniel Day - Lewis in the pivotal role of Abraham Lincoln, the film tells the story of the last months of Lincoln's presidency and his mission to abolish slavery during the time of the civil war.

But if you want to know the full history of Wakanda in the Marvel movies, here it is in a nutshell: precious Wakandan metal called Vibranium (more on that in a second), stolen in the plot of Ultron, inspired Wakanda to go on an outreach mission to, at the very least, Nigeria by the time of Civil War.

If the Dead Could Talk... Take on the persona of an individual living at the time of the Civil War and create a living history museum exhibit of that person's life.

By the time of the Civil War, the railroad had taken a firm root, and made fast travel into the city possible.

The setting was during the time of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era where the plot revolved around romance and marriage, love and loss - with a twist of mystery.

The game's storyline takes place two years after the events of «Valkyria Chronicles» and follows a military cadet who is sent to the front lines in a time of civil war.

Not exact matches

The president then explained that he and his advisors spent «days and weeks» worth of time meeting about Syria and trying to find a way to ease the suffering and end the civil war.

Holland's genuine, giddy emotion while babbling and sometimes whispering to his cellphone camera could just as easily be secret footage Marvel and Sony shot of Holland reacting to meeting the A-list «Civil War» cast for the first time.

We didn't get a lot of time with Vision, as he was introduced in «Avengers: Age of Ultron» and only had a small role in «Captain America: Civil War.»

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.

While Israel has struck Syrian army locations many times in the course of its neighbor's 7 - year - old civil war, the nation has neither confirmed nor denied the raid.

Israel has struck Syrian army locations many times during the Syrian civil war, hitting convoys and bases of Iranian - backed militias that fight alongside Assad's forces.

The schtick this time around is to marry the world of «South Park» with the tropes of Marvel's cinematic universe, offering a parody of superhero epics like «Civil War» (but with a lot more fart jokes, no doubt).

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With man thinking the world was flat (scientist of the times theory, I might add) and doctors believing you could bleed someone out to save them in the civil war times.

Welcome to the new Civil War, only this time instead of slave - owners hiding their avarice behind claims of state's rights, it's religious extremists who are doing that.

Today marks five years since the start of the Syrian Civil War and in that time, more than 4.7 million people have fled violence in the country and 6.6 million more have been internally displaced.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

In the civil war and struggle for power in the time of Uthman, the third Caliph, irreligious elements among the Muslim people did not refrain from fabricating traditions concerning the merits of some political figures.

It will insist that any version of Christian faith that does not grapple with war and peace, human equality, hunger, civil liberties, the hard decisions posed by medical technology, and a host of other social challenges is not a version of faith worth the time of either pulpit or pew.

I suspect we are still paying for the abrupt pace of the Civil War, this time with another form of diminishment of black Americans.

Ingersoll was many things, such as a Union officer in the Civil War, the attorney general of Illinois, one of the great orators of his time (his «Plumed Knight» speech, in which he nominated James G. Blaine at the 1876 Republican convention, is one of the great political speeches of its time), Republican political leader, attorney, and atheist.

Further, historical experience shows the value of an executive having some prerogative to act beyond his strict authorization, in times of immediate opportunity (the Louisiana Purchase) or immediate danger (the perilous position of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War).

A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.

«During the Civil War, the military became the primary form of law enforcement in the South,» reports Olivia B. Waxman for TIME magazine.

Funny you should say that since the Tea Billies have accused progressives, Democrats and the President of being exactly that «traitors» and right wing governors have talked about secession which the last time I checked is an act of treason and one for which Americans had a civil war over!

At the time, however, most British people were unconcerned about this tragic event on the other side of Europe and were more focussed on the question of Irish Home Rule, which threatened to erupt into civil war.

At times the elegiac element of Civil War memorials becomes explicit, as in the inscription on the Georgia monument raised at Winchester, VA, in 1884, during the War's twentieth anniversary — the same year in which the Lee statue in New Orleans was raised.

Even in our own time this fundamentally elegiac understanding of the Civil War retains a powerful hold.»

Sadly, most of the debate is anchored in an analysis that freights these bronze statues with the racial politics of our own time — rather than considering the motives of those who raised Confederate monuments in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the great period of Civil War memorialization.

It has some elements correct — just as Homer's Illiad correctly described Troy, and Gone with the Wind correctly described that there was a Civil War — but that's only because people of the time of course knew the landscape they lived in.

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At that time, however, there had been six decades of relative stagnation in race relations since the national compromise in the 1870s after the Civil War and Reconstruction.

During the war they sent a petition to the Virginia Government stating that «at a time when this colony, with others, is contending for the civil rights of mankind, against the enslaving schemes of a powerful enemy... the strictest unanimity is necessary among ourselves.»

After learning about the plight of these children, can you still do nothing for them while at the same time thinking that if you had lived during the Civil War, you would have been on the side of freedom?

He was 30 at the time of his death and had risen to prominence as the Spanish Civil War began.

With time to explore this land and her culture, Don Quixote, Velazquez's Las Meninas, and the Alhambra Palace come at your heart like a love - letter stuffed inside a Molotov cocktail, a weapon first used during «Le Guerra,» the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, a war between the Fascists of Franco and the RepublicaWar, in 1936, a war between the Fascists of Franco and the Republicawar between the Fascists of Franco and the Republicans.

Neil Kinnock was an MP for around the same amount of time and partly formed by even more bloody civil wars before he acquired the thorny crown.

If we must have this repeat of the Civil War let us get it over with and hope that we can come out with something better next time.

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