CIVIL WAR

Civil war may refer to:

• A civil war, a conflict within a given society or nation state.
• A particular civil war (see list of civil wars for a comprehensive list):
  • American Civil War (1861–1865); "The Civil War" in U.S. usage ordinarily means this war (see Naming the American Civil War)
  • English Civil War (1642–1651)
  • Finnish Civil War (1918)
  • Irish Civil War (1922–23)
  • Russian Civil War (1918–1922)
  • Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

Civil war may also refer to a "war-like" competition:

• Civil War (college rivalry) and Civil War (college football game), competitions between Oregon State University and the University of Oregon.
• Civil War, claimed to be a distinct variation of the drinking game Beer Pong.

Civil War(s) is also a title used for various published works, recordings, etc.:

• Bellum civile (The Civil War), used for
  • The Commentarii de Bello Civili (Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War) [1].
  • Another title for Pharsalia, a poem by Lucan.
• The Civil War, a 1990 documentary film by Ken Burns.
• "Civil War," a short story by Liam O'Flaherty.
• "Civil War," a song by Guns N' Roses.
• Civil Wars, a television legal drama that aired on ABC in the U.S. from 1991–1993.
• Civil War, Marvel Comics' big crossover event for summer 2006.
• the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down, a multimedia work created by Robert Wilson

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