Word: battlefield
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...Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battle-ground, author Peter Svenson illuminates the importance of this small patch of land in the Shenandoah Valley of northwest Virginia. Svenson does not try to argue that Cross Keys was in some way the most important battlefield of the Civil War. Rather, he reveals how the very elements that make Cross Keys like so many other battlefields also make it unique. In his narrative, Cross Keys becomes a place where the "great themes" of American History were fought out by individuals with their own historical identities on a Sunday in June, 1862. The land...
...Battlefield is the story of one man's communion with the land and with history. The book begins with Svenson's purchase of a forty acre farm at Cross Keys in the mid 1980s. Svenson, a professional artist, bought this rural plot as a place where he could regenerate himself and provide a home for his wife and two children. The land itself and its history did not much interest him at first. But when Svenson realizes that the focus of the Battle of Cross Keys took place on his 40 acres, what began as a casual interest...
...water with mercury. In another, she fights with a bank officer who won't lend her money because she's a single woman. Indians in Dr. Quinn are not hostile, just misunderstood; a hawker of phony patent medicines turns out to be a surgeon who grew disillusioned after witnessing battlefield carnage during the Civil War. Seymour, as the town's doctor, psychologist, police force and environmental chemist rolled into one, is the biggest anachronism of all. But a right purty...
...School students criticized an article in this month's GQ magazine that portrays Harvard Law School as a faction-ridden battlefield...
...such calculations are not so easy. Intervention on behalf of the Muslims might make the Serbs more pliable, but it might also make the Muslims more intractable. "Shifting battlefield fortunes have apparently made Bosnia's Slavic Muslim-led government reluctant to accept the ((Vance)) plan," reports Peter Maass of the Washington Post. And nothing would shift Muslim battlefield fortunes more than American intervention. Its mere prospect has hardened the Muslim negotiating position...