Excerpt (White): The Turner thesis is very simple: What made Americans was the existence of free land in the West, and it was the constant settlement of that free land, the retreat back to nature--back to barbarism almost--and then the recapitulation of progress out of this initial retreat that made Americans who they are.

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The US wisely capitalized on tribal leaders' disaffection with al-Qaida barbarism and worked with them to launch an offensive against al-Qaida forces and to bring the Sunni tribes into the political processes in Iraq.

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Its strength derives in part from the architectural barbarism of the post-war years, when Victorian terraces were bulldozed and replaced with brutalist blocks.

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It is very possible that Mitsurugi and Sophitia will still be peering down from their mountainous home in Tanum, Sweden long after the society that thought they were a good use of resources has fallen into full-on Cormac McCarthy barbarism.

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Ann Widdecombe, one of the few anti-hunt Tory MPs, urged MPs to seize the best chance to years to "ban that barbarism" completely.

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