Civilization

A civilization (US) or civilisation (UK) is any complex society characterized by urban development, symbolic communication forms (typically, writing systems), and a perceived separation from and domination over the natural environment by a cultural elite. Civilizations are intimately associated with and often further defined by other socio-politico-economic characteristics, including centralization, the domestication of both humans and other organisms, specialization of labor, culturally ingrained ideologies of progress and supremacism, monumental architecture, taxation, societal dependence upon farming as an agricultural practice, and expansionism.

Historically, a civilization was a so-called "advanced" culture in contrast to more supposedly primitive cultures. In this broad sense, a civilization contrasts with non-centralized tribal societies, including the cultures of nomadic pastoralists or hunter-gatherers. As an uncountable noun, civilization also refers to the process of a society developing into a centralized, urbanized, stratified structure.

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Virginia Gov. Northam meets with civil rights leaders

Post Bulletin 23 Feb 2019

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam pledged to civil rights leaders Friday to "do everything that I can do bring good from what happened" after a scandal over a racist yearbook photo and an admission of wearing blackface ... ....

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Deal near in civil rights lawsuits over prison mail policy

Globe Gazette 23 Feb 2019

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania prison officials said Friday they were close to settling two federal lawsuits over how the system processes mail sent to inmates by their lawyers ... ....

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College sports not immune to increasing lack of civility: 'That’s the reality we’re dealing with.'

The Star Press 23 Feb 2019

Tuesday's incident sparked debate between two of the Big Ten’s fiercest rivals. But it also raised larger questions about fan behavior in 2019 ... ....

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Sarah Sanders raked over the coals for stating Trump is an ‘advocate for civility’: ‘He’s ...

Raw Story 23 Feb 2019

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was roasted in The Washington Post for her “towering lie” about President Donald Trump’s promotion of violence ... Christopher Hasson. “The defendant is a d... The post Sarah Sanders raked over the coals for stating Trump is an ‘advocate for civility’ ... ....

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Radio hosts will address individual freedom in terms of civil rights

Daily Commercial 23 Feb 2019

ORMOND BEACH — The Three Wise Guys, the voices behind NPR’s “Friends Talking Faith,” will tackle the topics of free speech and religion against the backdrop of political correctness during a forum at the Ormond Beach Regional Library Sunday, Feb. 24.“The Challenge to Create ... David Axelrod, ... ....

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Teens tweet Trump, find Senate ally, score civil rights win

Springfield News-Sun 23 Feb 2019

All the bill needed to become law was President Donald Trump's signature. It would create a national archive of documents from civil rights cold cases. Students had been working on the project for years, families waiting on it for decades. But time was running out ... ....

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Teens tweet Trump, find Senate ally, score civil rights win | The Sacramento Bee

Sacramento Bee 23 Feb 2019

It would create a national archive of documents from civil rights cold cases ... But time was running out ... They started tweeting at the president ... ....

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Teens tweet Trump, score civil rights wins

ABC News 23 Feb 2019

High school students use social media and an alliance with a new Alabama senator to achieve an ambitious goal _ a federal law to create a national archive of documents involving decades of civil rights cold cases ... ....

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U.S. 'gravely concerned' about reports of civil society indictments in Turkey -State Department

This is Money 23 Feb 2019

... by reports that prosecutors in Turkey have moved to indict 16 civil society, media and business leaders, the U.S....

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U.S. 'gravely concerned' about reports of civil society indictments in Turkey: State Department

Reuters 23 Feb 2019

The United States is "gravely concerned" by reports that prosecutors in Turkey have moved to indict 16 civil society, media and business leaders, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday ... ....

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Civil Rights Museum visit leaves vivid memories

Kankakee Daily Journal 23 Feb 2019

The visit was rather appropriately timed as it came in February, during Black History Month ... ....

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Jury sides with doctors in civil case centering on patient's death

Observer-Reporter 23 Feb 2019

A Washington County jury found two local doctors were not negligent in their treatment of a local businessman who died of complications related to a heart attack in 2014 ... .......

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MSNBC's Chris Hayes documents conservative media’s unhinged fantasy of a modern day civil war

Media Matters 23 Feb 2019

Authorities say that one of Hasson's Google searches as he plotted his attack was, quote, "civil war if Trump impeached." ... Trump himself has warned ominously that the people would revolt if he were impeached, but the idea of a second civil war to defend Trump is ......