Began
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History Repeats: The Wars between the Yorkists and Lancastrians in Britain were actually preceded by the somewhat lesser-known wars between the Armagnacs and Burgundians in France, which ended some twenty years before the Wars of the Roses began.
Source: Useful Notes / Wars of the Roses - In the Emerald Fallout arc of Guy Gardner: Warrior (which preceded Emerald Twilight in Green Lantern), Guy receives a vision of Oa's destruction, and of Hal Jordan killing Sinestro, after his yellow power ring began to malfunction.
- Even as Flor De Loto's twenty seven year career began to span longer than most of her opponents were alive and her vicious reputation preceded her, she never used an offered handshake for a cheap shot, never the first one anyway.
Source: Affably Evil / Pro Wrestling
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