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Instead, to date, some 62,000 have signed up, ranging from laid-off tech workers to former civil servants trying to make a career pivot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
But the family was wealthy, so even as China’s war with Japan and its later civil war raged around him, Zhu got an education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
As a civil rights lawyer in Santa Barbara, he successfully argued a landmark California Supreme Court case, which upheld the right of adults unrelated by blood, marriage or adoption to live together as a family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The attacks have highlighted continuing instability in Libya, which has been split in two since a civil war broke out after the ousting of former leader Muammar Gaddafi.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Leading the procession along with Dr. King and other civil rights leaders were an Episcopal bishop, a Jewish rabbi, a United Nations diplomat, and four Catholic nuns wearing long black habits.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing civil
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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"Of Mice and Men"
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