rebellion
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Despite their seemingly simple narratives, the books address eternal themes: birth, death, rebellion and forgiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
In the mural “Troubled Island,” Noni Olabisi chronicles the Haitian struggle for independence, including how suffering under French colonists led to the 1791 slave rebellion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Puritanism, by contrast, was born in rebellion against the Church of England and the “divine right” claimed by the king.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
And by the 1920s, women with bobbed hair came to represent female independence and rebellion.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
A basic description of the Scientific Revolution is to say that it represented a successful rebellion by the mathematicians against the authority of the philosophers, and of both against the authority of the theologians.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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