Word: bellum
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...first thesis identified evidence of Islamic influence that survived from the Atlantic slave trade and the ante-bellum era, while the second thesis attributed Islam’s prominence among African-Americans to the effectiveness of such recent figures as Malcolm...
...more than three weeks after my return, my keep is empty, my will gone. It is right about now I reach maximal fatigue, as those granted freedom quietly and deliberately separate themselves from those condemned to continue battle, one group steeped in bacchanalian post-bellum festival and the other steeped in paper-cut blood. The barbarians are knocking at my gate, and I barely even hear them. At the climax of the battle, when the boiling midnight oil should be burning through pages of texts, I find myself utterly enervated, unable to move or even to breathe...
Second, Sir Meltdown is in love with his chief scientist, Dr. Sara Bellum, who is supposed to design his nuclear power plant. But Dr. Bellum annoys her boss by using her time and his money to invent a brain transfer machine which she tries out occasionally on her hunchbacked assistant, Igor Beaver...
...scheduled to open in Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York City, and it's only a matter of time before they sprout like mushrooms globally. Picture it: The House of Blues, Bangkok. It's hard to believe that the Blues has come all the way from the post-bellum Mississippi Delta to this corporate cul-de-sac, but I suppose weirder things have flickered onto the Big Board...
...instance, in its performance of the classic "Swan Lake," the company wore blue costumes rather than white. And the dancers introduced a new perspective on "Giselle," setting it in ante-bellum Louisiana rather than the forest of the Rhineland...