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feud, formalized private warfare, especially between family groups. The blood feud (see vendetta vendetta (vĕndĕt`ə) [Ital.,=vengeance], feud between members of two kinship groups to avenge a wrong done to a relative. ..... Click the link for more information. ) is characteristic of those societies in which central government either has not arisen or has decayed. In modern times the feud, outlawed in most countries, has persisted where public justice cannot be easily enforced and private means are a simpler recourse. A famous example is the 19th-century feud of the Hatfields and McCoys in the mountain regions of the southern United States. The frontier in U.S. history was also characterized by private justice and the feud. BibliographySee Waller, A. L., Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860–1900 (1988). |
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Amsterdam's Homomonument, a triangular granite memorial built in 1987 and the world's only site that addresses the persecution of gays throughout history, has received a 400,000-euro facelift, During its planning in the '70s, groups feuded over the need for such a memorial, with one Foreign minister equating its significance to a monument to kleptomaniacs. The decision coming more than a year after Parks and Garcetti feuded in public was a blow to LAPD Inspector General Jeff Eglash, who brought the charges against the chief. This provides a little extra relish for NBC, being in place to cash in a bit on a success by Fox, a network rival that NBC has feuded with in the past and that also produces ``The X-Files. |
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