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Hamburg massacre. Wilmington insurrection of 1898. The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist [1][2][3] paramilitary terrorist groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the United States. Red Shirt groups originated in Mississippi ...
Redshirts. Redshirts (originally titled Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas) [1] is a postmodern science fiction novel by John Scalzi that satirizes Star Trek. The book was published by Tor Books in June 2012. [2] The audiobook of the novel is narrated by Wil Wheaton. [3] The book won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel [4] and Locus Award for ...
Redshirt, in United States college athletics, is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen their period of eligibility.Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, aligning with the four years of academic classes typically required to earn a bachelor's degree at an American college or university.
Redshirting (academic) Redshirting is the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to allow extra time for socioemotional, intellectual, or physical growth. In the United States, this also refers to creating laws that set cutoff dates slightly before the new year in order to "redshirt" children born in ...
Redshirts (Italy) The Redshirts (Italian: Camicie rosse or Giubbe rosse), also called the Red coats, are volunteers who followed the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi during his campaigns. The name derived from the colour of their shirts or loose-fitting blouses that the volunteers, usually called Garibaldini, wore in lieu of a uniform.
Red Shirts (film), a 1952 film about Anita Garibaldi by Franco Rossi. Redshirt (stock character), originally derived from Star Trek, a stock character who dies soon after being introduced. Redshirts (novel), a 2012 novel by John Scalzi. "Redshirts" (song), a 2012 song by Jonathan Coulton. Redshirt (video game), a 2013 video game by Mitu Khandaker.
1 dead. 6 dead. The Hamburg massacre (or Red Shirt massacre or Hamburg riot) was a riot in the United States town of Hamburg, South Carolina, in July 1876, leading up to the last election season of the Reconstruction era. It was the first of a series of civil disturbances planned and carried out by white Democrats in the majority-black ...
Apart from religion, the Red Shirts also attacked other things they considered detrimental to progress, most notably alcohol.They have been described as "fascist"; [15] however, the anthem of the Red Shirts was the Internationale, widely considered to be the socialist anthem, and Garrido named one of his sons after Vladimir Lenin, a Marxist [13] and also considered himself a Marxist Bolshevik.