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The new republic was conceived amid an orgy of strikes, church-burnings, and uprisings of the right and left.
Will points out that the GOP establishment's endorsement of Bush was completely voluntary and that grassroots uprisings, as McCain is attempting to bring about, are not always good for the party--look at what George McGovern did to the Democrats.
The grand square, wholly wiped out by the great earthquake of 1755, has seen its share of watershed political events: King Carlos and his son were felled by assassin’s bullets in the praça in 1908, and one of the first uprisings of the Carnation Revolution of 1974 was staged in this place.
The Jacobite uprisings found little support in such lowland cities as Edinburgh.
The square (also called by its former name Terreiro do Paço), wholly wiped out by the great earthquake of 1755, has seen its share of watershed political events: King Carlos and his son were felled by an assassin’s bullets there in 1908, and it was the site of one of the first uprisings of the Carnation Revolution of 1974.