civil
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The department said its findings, announced Wednesday afternoon, were based on a six-month investigation by its Civil Rights Division.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Top Republican and Democratic lawyers squabbled over the details of Civil War “field voting,” when ballots were collected from Union soldiers and transported back home after the election.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Preservationists have criticized the plan as disrupting a sacred sightline between the memorials to Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, designed as a statement of unity after the Civil War.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
The Civil Aviation Authority is due to make a decision on lowering the flight approach into the airport by this autumn.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
“Folks said Pa was a fool for not going north. ‘Northerners won the Civil War,’ Sukie, his best friend, the blacksmith, said.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Vocabulary lists containing civil
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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"Of Mice and Men"
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