Word: south
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Mandela served as South Africa's first democratically elected President from...
...South Africa brought about our new democracy relatively peacefully on the foundations of such thinking, regardless of whether we were directly influenced by Gandhi...
...South Africa: Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela...
...ferried 7,000 men and their 2,000 mounts. Contrary winds delayed the force on the French side of the English Channel for 15 days--just long enough for Norway to launch its own 300-ship attack on the north of England. When Harold, having defeated the Scandinavians, rushed south again with 7,000 troops, William was outside Hastings. "For God's sake, spare not," he told his men. His well-deployed knights and archers eventually overwhelmed the exhausted Anglo-Saxon infantry. "The living marched over the heaps of the dead," wrote an early historian. By nightfall, Harold was slain...
...this sad, shadowy song about lynching in the South, history's greatest jazz singer comes to terms with history itself. RUNNERS-UP Corcovado by Antonio C. Jobim; A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan