Years of disagreement between the North and the South finally burst into civil war in April of eighteen sixty-one.

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When the federally-inflated bubble finally burst, the entire economy crashed in 2008.

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England were under pressure at the scrum and increasingly on the back foot in defence and the dam finally burst just before the hour mark.

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When Cavendish finally burst to the lead with scant meters to go, he was fresh.

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