* Macedonia's involvement in the second Syrian War ceases when Antigonus becomes preoccupied with the rebellion of Corinth and Chalcis, as well as an increase in enemy activity along Macedon's northern frontier.

Since the end of World War II, Socialist Republic of Macedonia's population has grown steadily, with the greatest increases occurring in the ethnic Albanian community.

In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

The other, of course, was the Civil War, the conflict which a century ago insured national unity over fragmentation.

according to many critics, in fact, the South has led the North in literature since the Civil War, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

Instead of this the 1930's witnessed a tragic economic depression, the rise of Fascist dictators in Europe, the wasting Civil War in Spain.

The thoroughgoing idealization of the planter society did not come, however, until after the Civil War when Southern writers were eager to defend a way of life which had been destroyed.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

The chief literary antecedents of the Snopes clan appeared in the realistic, humorous writing which originated in the South and the Southwest in the three decades before the Civil War.

In the story of Bright and the Corn Law agitation, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the franchise struggle Trevelyan reflects something of the moral power which enabled this independent man to exercise so immense an influence over his fellow countrymen for so long.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

The Secretary of War gave his assent after studying the history of the draft in the American Civil War as well as the British volunteer system in World War 1.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense ( different from Civilian-groups of World War 2 ), a responsibility of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property in disaster, natural or manmade.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Even before the benches had dried, the Civil War veterans were straggling back to their places.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

At that time, during the Civil War, Union muskets were being manufactured in Providence and the drills to drill them were being hand-filed with rattail files.

For example, Butler describes the English Civil War as a time which " Made men fight like mad or drunk / For dame religion as for punk / Whose honesty all durst swear for / Tho ' not one knew why or wherefore " (" punk " meaning a prostitute ).

Made up of veterans of the American Civil War, a Fenian army had been formed.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

At fourteen he emigrated to the USA to serve in the U. S. Army during the Civil War, although he had to wait until he was fifteen to serve in the Twelfth New York Volunteer Cavalry, where he was a drummer.

* The Civil Rights Commission is established in the USA under the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Civil Rights movements began as early as 1848 in the USA with such documents as the Declaration of Sentiment.

Following his exile to Mexico in the late 1930s, Spanish Civil War activist and montage artist Joseph Renau compiled his acclaimed Fata Morgana USA: the American Way of Life, a book of photomontaged images highly critical of Americana and North American " consumer culture ".

Davis emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA and Black Panther Party, and through her association with the Civil Rights Movement.

However, the USA did offer to adopt the terms of the Declaration during the American Civil War, when the Confederates sent several privateers to sea before putting their main effort in the more effective commissioned raiders.

The USSR defeated the nationalist Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the USA precipitated the US – Vietnam War ( 1965 – 1975 ) by participating in the Vietnamese Civil War ( 1955 – 1965 ) that the National Liberation Front fought against the Republic of Vietnam, the Asian client state of the United States.

Stead also became involved with the writer, broker and Marxist political economist William J. Blake, with whom she travelled to Spain ( leaving at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War ) and to the USA.

Grant County, Kansas was named after Ulysses S Grant, the 18th President of the United States ( 1869 – 1877 ), four star Union General in the USA Civil War, and fought in the Mexican – American War of 1846-1848.

Ulysses, Kansas was named after Ulysses S Grant, the 18th President of the United States ( 1869 – 1877 ), four star Union General in the USA Civil War, and fought in the Mexican – American War of 1846-1848.

He served as President of the National Council of Churches USA, was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and was a supporter and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil dawn in Southern California, USA

In 1943, he joined the Communist Party USA and in 1950 he was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ; in his testimony, he refused to disclose the names of contributors to a fund for a home for orphans of American veterans of the Spanish Civil War ( one of the contributors was Eleanor Roosevelt ), and was given a three-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress.

* In the northern states of the USA, an alternate term used in naming the American Civil War

During the American Civil War, he raised 900 troops for the 4th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment ( USA ) and served as Colonel.

As other nations industrialised their folk song underwent a similar process of change, as can be seen for example in France, where Saint-Simon noted the as the rise of ' Chansons Industriale ' among cloth workers in the early nineteenth century, and in the USA where industrialisation expanded rapidly after the Civil War.

Congress approved several measures to protect against future attacks, including creating the Department of Homeland Security and passing the USA PATRIOT Act, which was criticized by groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union.

Sponsoring organizations included NARAL Pro-Choice America, Choice USA, the Feminist Majority Foundation, Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), the National Organization for Women, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Code Pink, and Black Women's Health Imperative.

In January 2009, USA 3000 submitted a Statement of Intent to the United States Transportation Command ( USTRANSCOM ) based at Scott Air Force Base to be certified into the country ’ s Civil Reserve Air Fleet ( CRAF ).

The university is named in honor of Lawrence Sullivan " Sul " Ross, the son of a pioneer Texas family who went on to become a Texas Ranger, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, the 19th Governor of Texas ( USA ), and a president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now called Texas A & M University.