She accidentally changed the number of children the vampire Bill had back in the Civil War era a mistake her publisher corrected in later editions.
Death's significance for the Civil War generation arose as well from its violation of prevailing assumptions about life's proper end about who should die, when and where, and under what circumstances.
Winston Churchill contributed to a 1931 collection of essays called "If It Had Happened Otherwise" with an entry envisioning how World War I might have been avoided if the Confederacy had won the Civil War.
If Dr Jaafari is to stand a chance of making peace among his fellow Iraqis, he needs to change tack both in the way he builds a ruling coalition and in how he tries to stop Iraq sliding into a full-blown civil war.
These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.
Brahimi urged the delegates to seize the chance to end more than two decades of war and civil strife in Afghanistan.
Songs such as Blowin' In The Wind and The Times They Are a-Changin' became anthems of the anti-war and civil rights movements.
Clarke's "ideas" began taking shape when - as a civil servant before the war - he started writing tales about outer space.
The dark forces of civil conflict and sectarian war will have to be averted, and difficult political and economic concerns will have to be addressed.
He said he thought Dr. Seuss, whose work served as a sort of blueprint in rhyme for the creation of a just post-World War II civil society, would have countenanced the occasion.
If you want a more anti-war, civil-liberties-based liberalism than you have to argue for it, work with activists to build up grass-roots support for those policies, and vote for local and state candidates who support those ideas.
Travers was an outspoken supporter of the civil rights and anti-war movements.
Military analysts know full well that a sudden onset of famine is one of the surest triggers for civil unrest and all out war.
One group seeking to promote social justice is Beeatoona, a non-governmental organization based in Beirut, working for peace building and better understanding between the many religious and political affiliations in local communities in the Aley region (Lebanon), major witness of civil clashes since the Lebanese war.
Young, the chief of the War Crimes Branch, Civil Affairs Division, in a one-page letter.
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He had been a senior civil servant in the pre-war government, specialising in financial matters.
Macy, showing footage of American soldiers storming beaches of Normandy during World War II, a civil rights march, and a moon landing.
With everything that was going on in the late 1960s -- the war in Vietnam, civil and human rights issues, the Rev.
There is a risk, say some observers, that Mr Putin will look for enemies outside the country or launch a war against liberal-minded civil society.
It is not only the continued deterioration of civil and economic life since the July war, as Lebanese call the 2006 conflict, that has shaken people's confidence.
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Ironically, the only point of consensus is that there is just one way to attack the problems of war and peace, expanded civil rights, job creation and development, terror, health care, education and the environment.
Paul dinged Republicans as well as Democrats, targeted military spending as well as entitlements, and spent a good 30 seconds giving a more full-throated defense of wartime civil liberties than the allegedly anti-war candidate Obama ever did.
Although he made dreadful mistakes in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, was devastatingly inept at handling the fight over whether the U.S. should join the League of Nations and allowed his Administration's wholesale assault on civil liberties both during and after the war, the vast majority of historians today consider Wilson a great or near-great President.
So, the idea of growing up to be president some day was implanted in my head, and it became the source of great consternation for me when, in grad school in the late '60s as civil rights, feminist and anti-Vietnam War ferment was swelling, I ratified my own commitment to social justice by openly claiming my gay identity.
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Yet, after the Gulf War it was discovered that these "international civil servants" misused what they had learned at the lAEA to teach their fellow Iraqis how to outwit the lAEA inspections.
After the recent war, the salaries of those working in the civil service were raised and as a result my own income went up.
Finally, around the second world war, as the Supreme Court shifted its focus to civil liberties, the most important cases became those concerning freedom of speech.
The bracelets have been developed by the Civil Rights Defenders campaign group in a bid to help workers in war zones and other areas of conflict.
The persistent war on cash has more to do with moralistic society than it does with civil society as Wolman claims.
His impeachment came when he sacked his secretary of war, in defiance of the view of the Republican-controlled Senate that civil officers could be removed only with the Senate's approval.
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