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  2. Border ruffian - Wikipedia

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    Border ruffians were proslavery raiders who crossed into the Kansas Territory from Missouri during the mid-19th century to help ensure the territory entered the United States as a slave state. Their activities formed a major part of a series of violent civil confrontations known as " Bleeding Kansas ", which peaked from 1854 to 1858.

  3. Marais des Cygnes massacre - Wikipedia

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    After taking 11 local free-staters hostage from their homes and fields, the border ruffians forced them into a nearby ravine and began shooting at them. 10 of the men were hit by the fire, five of them fatally. The wife of one of the victims followed the border ruffians to the site, and attempted to give medical treatment to the wounded.

  4. Jayhawker - Wikipedia

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    The United States Air Force and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force operate the advanced pilot trainer T-1 Jayhawk for students selected to fly strategic/tactical airlift or tanker aircraft. The 184th Intel Wing call sign is the Fighting Jayhawks, and previously the Flying Jayhawks for many years before losing assigned aircraft.

  5. Battle of Osawatomie - Wikipedia

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    On the morning of August 30, 1856, a force of several hundred Border ruffians led by pro-slavery leader John W. Reid entered Osawatomie, in which John Brown and his family were staying at the cabin of the Rev. Samuel Adair, the husband of Brown's half-sister, Florella. 26-year-old Frederick Brown, the only member of the Brown family present ...

  6. The '90s: The Last Great Decade - Wikipedia

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    TV Guide describes it as: "A retrospective of the people and events that marked the 1990s." [ 2 ] The Daily News describes it as: "Flashback recalls years both grand and giddy, including cyberbiz, Bill Clinton , Anna Nicole Smith , Roseanne Barr and Vanilla Ice ."

  7. Lawrence Berry Washington - Wikipedia

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    According to a May 1908 article in The Scrap Book entitled "If Washington Had Been Crowned" and later in a February 1951 article in Life entitled "If Washington Had Become King: A Carpenter or an Engineer Might Now Rule the U.S.," Lawrence Berry Washington would have succeeded his father, John Thornton Augustine Washington, as "king" of the ...

  8. Ruffian - Wikipedia

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    Ruffian, a 2007 television movie about the racehorse; Ruffian Games, a Scottish games developer; Ruffian, a chess engine; Ruffian 23, Irish sailboat designed by Billy Brown; Border Ruffians, pro-Slavery activists from Missouri in the American Civil War; The Ruffian on the Stair, a 1964 British play; HMS Bellerophon, also known as Billy Ruffian

  9. File:Border ruffians marching on Lawrence, Kansas.jpg

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    Description: Border ruffians marching on Lawrence, Kansas Territory, from: J. N. Holloway. History of Kansas: From the first exploration of the Mississippi valley, to its admission into the Union: embracing a concise sketch of Louisiana; American slavery, and its onward march; the conflict of free and slave labor in the settlement of Kansas, and the overthrow of the latter, with all other ...

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