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Civil War

[siv-uhl wawr] / ˈsɪv əl ˈwɔr /
NOUN
19th century us war
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US actor Chadwick Boseman, who died aged 43 in 2020, four years after a colon cancer diagnosis, played the character in the original Black Panther movie, two Avengers films and Captain America: Civil War.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

That landmark picture features McElwee, then in his mid-30s, as he tries to chronicle the exploits of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who laid siege to the South during the Civil War.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

We drew a lot of inspiration from the Congresses that wrote the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments after the Civil War.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

“A Terrible Intimacy” concludes with a trial that took place in 1861, a few weeks after the Civil War began.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

She’ll race across the Civil War battlefields of Monocacy and Germantown, running through Gaithersburg and Rockville and Bethesda, Maryland.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti




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