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In 1884, the redoubtable Burnaby volunteered for service in the Sudan, where the governor-general, Charles Gordon, had been besieged in the capital Khartoum by the Ansar followers of Muhammad Ahmed, the self-proclaimed Mahdi; called “Dervishes” by the British, they had embarked upon a jihad to overthrow Egyptian rule of the territory.

From The Wall Street Journal

Why wouldn’t I wish that upon anybody?

From The Wall Street Journal

Well, outcomes are partly dependent upon who the VAR is - which makes consistency very difficult.

From BBC

Immediately upon leaving Sutherland’s home, Byers testified, he told his friend Kauffman that he definitely wasn’t interested.

From Slate

My research, like the HSCA’s, has relied upon the same basic set of facts about who beyond Byers was told what—and when they were told—about the Byers Bounty: three people, all told after the assassination.

From Slate