Off-court battle: Inside the civil war dividing Australian basketball
A decade after rescuing the NBL, Larry Kestelman is facing off against team owners in a fight led by an American billionaire ...
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Smoke and memory: A Civil War painting endures in Minnesota’s Capitol
At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...
North Carolina judge challenging outcome of race wore Confederate uniform in college photo
A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb ...
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From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War and beyond, one SE Minnesota family served America
For the first time in 50 years, three brothers — John J. Casseday, George Casseday and Samuel Casseday — got together. All three, along with a fourth brother (and, by the way, their father) fought in ...
Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
Judge challenging outcome of race wore Confederate uniform in college photo
Judge Jefferson Griffin was photographed wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when ...
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
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Those who have civil war ancestors find camaraderie within the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...
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Construction work unearths skeletons of dozens of people executed in Greece during the 1940s
The Greek civil war lasted from 1946 to 1949 but executions ... said the officials, who posted images of the footwear. The first remains were discovered in December during work on a city park.
Syrians celebrate ouster of al-Assad on 14th anniversary of civil war uprising
Crowds waved Syrian flags and chanted in celebration of the victory that ended the family’s five-decade rule in rallies in ...
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The Rise of Civil Terrorism
As with today’s civil terrorists, too, their rage was fueled by opposition to what they saw as an unjust war—in their case ... (David Fenton/Getty Images) Of course, the principle of prosecutorial ...