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Massacre Definition
(n.) The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day.
(n.) Murder.
(n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings.
It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is t...
Christopher Hitchens
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women, silence, 1960s, literature, cruelty, jane austen, europe, literary criticism, napoleon, england
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that 'other' cleansing of the regions and peoples that...
Christopher Hitchens
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history, bravery, honesty, racism, prejudice, holocaust, accuracy, historians, jews, antisemitism