The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'tat committed by parts of the army against the government of the Second Spanish Republic .

The Civil War devastated Spain from July 17 , 1936 to April 1 , 1939 , ending with the victory of the rebels and the founding of a dictatorship led by the Nationalist General Francisco Franco .

In the past few years economists have been very interested in analyzing political phenomena like civil wars. Civil wars are the dominant form of conflict since World War II; they're much more common than interstate wars now and they've killed more than 20 million people.

Thus, the recent violence in Riyadh ultimately reflects not just a hatred of Americans but a titanic clash of visions and a struggle for power; in this, it recapitulates the civil war of the 1920s. Is Saudi Arabia to remain a monarchy that at least partially accommodates modernity and the outside world?

His action made civil war inevitable. A flamboyant showman, dedicated scientist, and starry-eyed dreamer, Lowe, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, went to the federal government with a view to convincing the authorities in the use of balloons for observation purposes.

He eventually was made chief of the aeronautic department and rendered valuable service to the Army of the Potomac during the war. He did this just to enhance and get rid of the original intent of the republic.".

Moving on from the baseless assertion that the Civil War was "senseless," what does Mr. Paul mean when he says that Lincoln went to war to "enhance and get rid of the original intend of the republic"?