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• EEBO: Early English Books Online
  *'''''[https://0-eebo.chadwyck.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/home EEBO: Early English Books Online]''''' ...ugh the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War." Digital page images.
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• Cavalier
  *1:( Cavalier ) historical a supporter of King Charles I in the English Civil War. ...during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War English Civil War], the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 – c. 1679). Cavaliers were a
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• Rebellion
  ...ge of [[behaviors]] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience civil disobedience] and mass [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance ...on in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War American Civil War]. It also includes members of paramilitary forces who take up arms against
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• Invasion
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] invasioune, from Anglo-French invasion, from Late Latin invasion-, invasi ...a larger [[strategy]] to end a [[war]], or it can [[constitute]] an entire war in itself. Due to the large [[scale]] of the operations associated with inv
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• War
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''werre'', from Anglo-French ''werre'', ''guerre'', of Germanic origin; ak ...es or [[nations]] (2) : a period of such armed conflict (3) : [[state]] of war
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• United States
  ...lly ("American [[values]]", "U.S. forces"). "American" is rarely used in [[English]] to refer to subjects not connected with the United States. ...lar, a single unit—e.g., "the United States is"—after the end of the Civil War. The singular form is now standard; the plural form is retained in the idio
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• Oral history
  ...acetate discs]]. With the development of audio tape recordings after World War II, the task of oral historians became easier. ...r careers, others are focused on a specific period in their lives, such as war veterans, or specific events, such as those with survivors of Hurricane Kat
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• Treason
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] tresoun, from Anglo-French traisun, from [[Latin]] tradition-, traditio ac ...citizen]]'s [[actions]] to help a foreign [[government]] overthrow, make [[war]] against, or seriously [[injure]] the [parent nation]." In many nations, i
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• Enthusiasm
  ...velation; a vain confidence of divine favour or communication." In current English vernacular the word simply means intense enjoyment, interest, or approval. ...atrocities, and thus it was an absolute social sin to remind others of the war by engaging in enthusiasm. The Royal Society bylaws stipulated that any per
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• Curfew
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''coverfeu'', [[signal]] given to bank the [[hearth]] f ...university students on the West Coast of the United States during [[World War II]], African-Americans in many towns during the time of [https://en.wikipe
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• World Government
  ...Latin, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Monarchia De Monarchia], which in English translates literally as "On Monarchy". Dante's work was published in 1329, ...ius Hugo Grotius] and published in Paris, on the [[legal]] [[status]] of [[war]]. It is now regarded as a foundational work in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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• Nonresistance
  ...llowing the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War English Civil War] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Settlement_1701 Protestant Succe
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• Automatic Writing
  ...at this person had resided at St Columb Major in Cornwall during the Civil War. The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] implies that '''Automatic Writing''' is that writing done by a
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• Mantle
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''mantel'', from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] ''mantellum'' ...oak worn from the 12th to the 16th century and during the American [[Civil War]] by both sexes, although by the 19th century, it was used to describe any
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• The Hague
  ...l instead of city walls. This proved disastrous during the [[Eighty Years' War]], as it allowed Spanish troops to easily occupy the town. Parts of the city sustained heavy damage during [[World War II]]. The [[Atlantic Wall]] was built through part of the city, causing who
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• Letters I-VII, Mr. Jefferson Returns: American Mentor and Prophet
  ...makes clear that the tyrannical autocracy of King George the Third and his English aristocracy had to transform into American democracy, the [[power]] of the ...in the purveying of death than the glorification of life; more enslaved to war and oil and money than liberating themselves and the world’s people to se
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• 2012-12-16-Sun of Pure Love Will Shine
  ...to him by Michael of Nebadon. You have lived through so many centuries of war and hatred; of killing each other by petty differences in appearance as wel ...nd righteousness is that the people of the great America threw the yoke of English rule; we said with one voice back then “NO MORE”, no more will we be st
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• University of the South
  ...and four faculty members present. It is also recorded that after the Civil War, [[Robert E. Lee]] was offered the position of Vice-Chancellor but declined ...to teach or attend class -- perhaps the last vestige of this historically English practice in North America. Similarly, the Highlanders and Wellingtons "dri
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• Sociology of religion
  ...ims of many classical theorists and sociologists immediately after [[World War II]], religion has continued to play a vital role in the lives of [[individ * James Hunter, noteworthy for anticipating the “[[culture]] [[war]]s” of the late 20th century, especially their religious [[character]].
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• Theocracy
  ...us institutional representatives (i.e., a church), replacing or dominating civil government.[3] Theocratic governments enact [[Theonomy|theonomic]] [[law]]s ...kings); the meaning "priestly or religious [[body]] wielding political and civil power" is recorded from 1825.
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