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Magnet Fishing a Plantation Owned by Mississippi’s Richest Man
We went magnet fishing at the well and cistern of an 1830s plantation once owned by the richest man in Mississippi. This site holds deep history, including ties to the Civil War - Union forces burned ...
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Magnet fishers discover 350-year-old cannonball used in English Civil War
Magnet fishers have discovered a 350-year-old cannonball thought to have been used during the English Civil War. The group were carrying out a search of the River Lochy in the Scottish Highlands ...
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What to Know About Myanmar’s Civil War, Which Is Complicating Earthquake Relief Efforts
Relief efforts from Friday’s devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake will be especially complicated with the country in embroiled in civil war, which began after the army seized power from the ...
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The world’s youngest country fought for decades to govern itself. Now it’s on the cusp of another civil war
It plunged into a civil war in 2013 and then again three years later, until the violence was stopped by a fragile ceasefire agreement in 2018. The nation is governed by a coalition government ...
Al Jazeera English23d
What’s happened in Sudan’s civil war after new Khartoum battles?
Sudanese citizens celebrate in Port Sudan after the Sudanese army deepened its control over the capital, Khartoum, on March 27, 2025 [Ibrahim Mohammed Ishak/Reuters] Sudan’s civil war could ...
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Is South Sudan on the brink of another civil war?
On Thursday, the country's opposition said that the arrest of Vice President Riek Machar means that the 2018 peace deal that ended a brutal civil war had been invalidated. The US embassy and other ...
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In the Democrats’ looming civil war, one side is already doomed
In the last few days we’ve heard what sound like the opening salvos of a Democratic Party civil war. After losing two of the last three presidential elections to Donald Trump, self-reflection is ...
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Universities Can — And Must — Do More To Foster Civic Engagement And Civil Discourse
At the same time, students overwhelmingly support efforts to increase civil dialogue. The most popular solution? Creating designated forums where students can share their views. Both of these ...
The Hill23d
Fired Education staffers say department doomed to fall short of its legal obligations
Amid the chaos at the shrinking and endangered Department of Education, multiple former staffers tell The Hill the recent layoffs were disorganized and heartbreaking, but they are most concerned ...
Post and Courier24d
Students protest College of Charleston's anti-DEI measures amid federal and state crackdown
A group of students gathered in the Cistern Yard to push back against what they called preemptive measures taken by College of Charleston administrators to diminish diversity, equity and inclusion ...
The New York Times24d
Paramilitary Fighters Flee Sudan’s Capital, a Major Shift in Civil War
In dramatic scenes that appear to mark a turning point in nearly two years of civil war, Sudan’s military is driving fighters of its rival, the Rapid Support Forces, out of Khartoum. By Declan ...
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Sudan’s civil war: What military advances mean, and where the country could be heading next
Christopher Tounsel has previously received funding from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. A series of advances by the Sudanese military has led some observers to posit that the ...