Word: southern
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There must be something in the blood of Southern democrats. After Andrew Jackson's inauguration in 1829, he invited crowds of common citizens into the White House for a rousing celebration of democracy. As history tells it, the undignified masses stole ornaments, destroyed furniture and made a general mess of the entire residence. It seems that with the aid of our undignified President, some 20th century aristocrats have finished...
Third, and perhaps most important, I turned in my thesis last Friday. When I began the process last spring, I was interested in my topic of a southern California architect cast as a historical Progressive, but I was not looking forward to all the research. And, as expected, I did not revel in every one of the hundreds of hours I spent poring over books, articles, and archives...
TIRANA, Albania: Rebels have so far rejected President Sali Berisha's offer of amnesty if they lay down their arms. Instead, insurgents in Albania's southern cities organized self-defense units a nd vowed to continue fighting until Berisha resigns and new elections are called. "Weapons will not be turned in until this problem is solved," said Faud Karaliu, the new police chief in the southern city of Sarande. Civilians, who are enraged over lost life savings in corrupt investment schemes, have commandeered tanks, raided military armories and barricaded the cities of Vlore, Delvine and Sarande against government troops. Berisha...
...Burns' great-great-grandfathers, a John Stevens, led a regiment of 200 men north of the famed Lewis and Clark expedition. "He was ordered to take a northern route, and Lewis and Clark had a southern route," says Burns...
SARANDE, Albania: Albania edged closer to all-out civil war as government military jets bombed a southern village and armed civilians clashed with army forces. Reports say a Chinese-made MiG-15 warplane sailed over the port of Livena and dropped up to three bombs on the town, causing an unknown amount of damage. Although the government denies its forces are attacking civilians, crew members of a military jet that defected to southern Italy on Tuesday said they had been given orders to bomb civilian targets. President Sali Barisha has launched a major security operation to quell the unrest, which...