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"I went to university in Nottingham to study history, and I've always been really interested in the more gruesome and grotesque elements of history," she said.

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One gruesome feature of this more than two-year-long civil conflict has been the huge volume of footage and photos of horrific atrocities - often seemingly filmed by the culprits themselves, and circulated online.

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I thought what might follow would be Mr. Icke’s most provocative—and logical and interesting—departure from Sophocles, an ending of a more ambiguous and less gruesome kind.

The gruesome subject matter is translated into immediate household imagery that someone Amélie’s age could grasp.

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A gruesome killing in her own family inspired South African Leonora Tima to create a digital platform where people, mostly women, can talk about and track abuse.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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