Sentences with phrase «years into the civil war»

Set in Virginia three years into the Civil War in 1864, Sofia Coppola's latest film The Beguiled is an adaptation of Thomas P. Cullinan's novel of the same name from 1961 and a remake of Don Siegel's film from 1971.

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While the deployment was small in scale, it was large in import for a president who until now had refused to send American ground troops for any sustained operations into a country devastated by more than four years of civil war.

This gets into the Bitcoin civil war that has been raging for years.

It's an interesting coincidence that the Reformation, which brought the whole of Europe into civil war and lead to mass migration happened a mere 25 years after Columbus «discovered» America.

We actually started as a secular nation, we went along for a little, had a civil war which killed a bunch of people, went merrily along for a few more years, got mired in 2 more world wars, then inserted GOD int he 1950's into the pledge and on the money to protect ourselves from communists (because that somehow protects us from communists) and then we've been going along ever since.

Former minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani - Kayode, has joined millions of Nigerians to felicitate with former President Goodluck Jonathan on his 59th Birthday, saying, «But for that single and historic decision that you made to concede the election last year and congratulate your opponent, Nigeria would have been plunged into a cauldron of fire; and the greatest and most bloody civil war that the world has ever known».

Although the exact year is unknown, Carver was born into slavery just before the end of the Civil War on Moses Carver's plantation in Diamond Grove, Missouri.

A survey delving into the past 30 years in sub-Saharan Africa reveals that temperature changes match up with a significant increase in the likelihood of civil war

On the nearby Thai - Burma border, the world's longest - running civil war, the Burmese - Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year.

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo (Captain America: Civil War) have managed to take their balanced approach from Civil War and The Winter Soldier and inject even more characters into the mix; we're talking well over 30 big names all mashed into one nearly three hour film that briskly flies by as characters we've grown to love over the years embark on their most important (and personal) battle yet.

Synopsis: In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery i...

Based on the best - selling novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Thandie Newton (The Pursuit of Happyness) as an upper class couple whose marriage is put to the test when Nigeria breaks into the crippling 1967 civil war that births the short - lived republic of Biafra.

This is yet another sequel to Captain America following The Winter Soldier last year, but it also expands the universe by being the first segue into the «Civil War» era.

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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.

From developer Sega, the sequel is set two years after the original and thrusts players into a civil war in the game's homeland of Gallia.

Almost unheard in the background of 12 Years a Slave was the Christian - driven abolitionist movement that would, within a decade of Northup's book (he disappears from history, perhaps to Canada), plunge the United States into a four - year civil war whose savagery matched 1914 - 18, though no one realised until too late.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote the «John Carter of Mars» stories, appears as a character here, a young would - be writer (Daryl Sabara of «Spy Kids») reading the journal of his late uncle (Taylor Kitsch), a swarthy, two - fisted Civil War vet searching for gold out West who stumbled instead into another Civil War — this one a thousand years old and millions of miles away.

«Black Panther,» the masked Avenger and King of Wakanda, is heading into production next year after a successful co-starring role in «Civil War.»

One of the films for 2013 that I'm most intrigued by is Steve McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free man living in New York during the mid-1800's that was kidnapped and sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American CivilYears A Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free man living in New York during the mid-1800's that was kidnapped and sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civilyears in Louisiana before the American Civil War.

The Ebola outbreak in Liberia spread first into Lofa, once one of the most devastated places in the 14 - year civil war.

One hundred and fifty years after shots fired at Fort Sumter ignited the Civil War, a growing number of teachers are digging directly into primary sources and using technology to help their students better understand the conflict and bring it to life.

He says his year - end Civil War unit kept growing into an increasingly elaborate history lesson: «I would divide the class into regiments.

Materials: Selected Civil War Photographs, computer, projector for presentations Lesson: Arrange students into groups and assign each group a year during which the Civil War was fought.

They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two - thousand - year - old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war.

He delves into the question of how young men get into situations where they willingly risk their lives for their ideals, drawing parallels between the suicide bomber and a young volunteer fighting in the Spanish Civil War seventy years earlier (1936 - 1939).

Elizabeth Gaffney's magnificent, Dickensian Metropolis captures the splendor and violence of America's greatest city in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.

From the book jacket: Elizabeth Gaffney's Dickensian Metropolis captures the splendor and violence of New York in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.

Twenty years after COLD MOUNTAIN, which won the National Book Award, became an international bestseller and adapted into an Academy Award - winning film, Charles Frazier revisits the days of the Civil War era in his latest novel, VARINA.

More than 10 years after the end of its civil war, Guatemala is coming into its own as a tourist destination, Frommer said.

On Tuesday, November 24, Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans surprised Jimmy Kimmel Live's audience (and viewers) with a brand - spanking - new «first look» at Captain America: Civil War, which zooms into theaters next year.

The civil war, which has been going on for five years now, and the different power interests of governments and corporations have thrown the country into...

Set in the year 2014, Mexico has sunken into a civil war which poses an immediate threat to the United States.

While the works are inspired by Willem de Kooning's Woman series from the 1950s, they also take into account the turmoil of the time — the atmosphere of struggle and protest of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, as well as the four political assassinations of Dr. King, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X. Jack Whitten (b. 1939, Bessemer, Alabama) has been exhibiting his work for over 40 years.

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.»

The civil war in Syria began after four consecutive years of drought forced the farmers into overpopulated towns.

But elsewhere in Asia, work is moving ahead to turn another area more associated with conflict than conservation into a sanctuary for at - risk elephants.A year and a half after Sri Lanka's quarter - century civil war ended, officials have announced plans to use more than 100,000 acres of jungle — the former stronghold of the Tamil Tigers separatists — to help protect wildlife, The Guardian reported today.

Specific exclusions are often written into the contract to limit the liability of the insurer; for example claims relating to suicide after 2 years suicide has to be paid in full fraud, war, riot and civil commotion.

But since Trump, with no ties to either camp or its ideology, defeated a raft of other candidates for the presidential nomination last year, the Republicans have been cast into a growing civil war between mainstream conservatives, Tea Party - inspired libertarians, and the xenophobic and misogynistic groundswell that Trump has proven expert at tapping into.