Sentences with phrase «used during the civil war»

I'd imagine it's difficult to uphold constitutional obligations of raising and funding a military, since the military was used during the Civil War to take down the confederate states; and those regions definitely had nothing to fork over for a while after that defeat.

The Draft was first used during the Civil War and last used during the Vietnam war.

Civil War Slang Students explore some of the words and phrases used during the Civil War — and their meanings.

Americans first used them during the Civil War, and in the post-war building boom, these tiles were often found in schools, storefronts, and residences.

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In American history, this method was used by many of the colonies, by the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War, and by Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War.

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

Picasso's «Guernica» depicted the horrors of the bombing by Nazi planes of a tiny village during the Spanish Civil War, making striking use of the cross to drive home the inhumanity of modern warfare.

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.

Gradually, during the 1990s, the Security Council began to use Chapter VII much more to impose economic sanctions, arms embargoes, and to deploy large peacekeeping forces and even military attacks in many civil wars.

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has said it will pay a total of N88bn for the complete destruction of the remnants of landmines and bombs used during the Nigerian Civil War.

He served as a Tuskegee Airman during World War II and was a civil rights freedom rider who challenged racial segregation laws that denied blacks the right to use public facilities, like restaurants and hotels.

He added that Adebayo fought relentlessly for the unity of the country during the civil war that ravaged the country between 1967 and 1970, and that he suggested to the federal government to opt for dialogue rather than the use of force.

Personally, with the experience I have as a military man and during the civil war, using local intelligence, using local authorities from ward, to local government, to the state can improve our intelligence collection,» Buhari noted.

ICOM has since used satellites to survey damage to ancient mausoleums in Timbuktu during the 2012 civil war in Mali and plans to use them to assess destruction caused by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

During the Civil War, mesquite beans would become a substitute for coffee beans when food was scarce, and early freighters would use the beans to feed livestock when grasses failed.

Apple cider vinegar was used for wound healing during the American civil war and as late as world war one.

During the Civil War, the Confederacy used peanut oil as an affordable lubricant for locomotives due to a shortage of whale oil.

The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, on the other hand, are genuinely beautiful pieces of cinema: films that respectively use ghosts and monsters to explore the physical and psychological impact of living under a repressive regimes (both are set during the Spanish Civil War).

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

He even has a suit similar to Tony Stark's Hulkbuster that was used in Totally Awesome Hulk during the Civil War II event to fight the Green Goliath.

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.

The Q&A ends with detailed examples of the ciphers used by both the North and South during the Civil War.

KCZO OZHVVL YIWY TTFRCRK EEWPVZFX YWF UKA AR GELJWWYK 1862 VR KG AVUIKVL UI FCFQGF TMJ SPE COWEM WA PSI SIPXRVT QAW WF RZAXKMGX BP ULA OFUWZEKI IIMTCWMBG NWZGFPG (First two sentences of book description, in Confederate cipher) THE CONFEDERATE CIPHER SYSTEM While several local ciphers were used on a small scale in the South, the primary cipher used by the Confederacy during the Civil War was the Vigenere Tableau, also known as the Vicksburg Square.

If you want a real - life heroine, try The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, a novel based on the life of a woman named Carrie McGavock; her Tennessee plantation home was used as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War.

It was used as a healing dressing on wounds and infectious sores in Biblical times, and it is credited with saving the lives of thousands of soldiers during the Civil War.

Many of the local buildings remain untouched and are preserved as they were originally constructed after being used as hospitals, offices, and commander's quarters during the Civil War.

The original Pavilion marked a crucial moment during the Spanish Civil War (17 July 1936 — 1 April 1939), with the Spanish Republic using it as -LSB-...]

Frieze Artist Award winner Kiluanji Kia Henda merges the cult of Marxism - Leninism after Angolan independence with the drawn parallels between witchcraft practices during Angola's civil war and science fiction narratives used by Cold War superpowewar and science fiction narratives used by Cold War superpoweWar superpowers.

Through a series of reference points ranging from torture methods employed during the Spanish Civil War to repetitive music used to brainwash victims in Stanley Kubrick's seminal film Clockwork Orange the exhibition looks at the manner in which artistic production has migrated from an aesthetic pursuit to the soft - coercion of government and institutions power.

I think it highly unlikely that people used paper lunch sacks as we know them during the Civil War.

Artist Corita Kent used printmaking to express her passion for feminism and civil rights and her opposition to the Vietnam war during the 1960s and 1970s.

The home once served as a hospital for soldiers in 1861 during the Civil War and still has a table in the home that was once used as an operating table.