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civil war) US abolitionist Harriet Tubman, seen here in the 1910s. She helped thousands of slaves to escape to free states.
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Meanwhile, a rival military strongman and master of a multibillion cocaine empire plunges into his own fray with the mob, planting Jack squarely in the middle of an internecine war. No, not ``a'' civil war but rather five: the Sunnis' war to reimpose their traditional dominance on the Shiites, the Shiite war to make the Sunnis' demotion permanent, the internecine war between the two dominant Shiite factions, the war between the Kurds and Arabs in the north, and the lingering war between the two dominant Kurdish factions. Healy argues that the case of Austria was even more extreme in that the home front was itself a site where "residents waged an internecine war against one another" (300). |
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