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Tacitus in Germania. chapter 33 writes "Long, I pray, may foreign nations persist in hating one another .... and fortune can bestow on us no better gift than discord among our foes." During the Gallic Wars, Caesar was able to use a divide and conquer strategy to easily defeat the Gauls, exploiting their fractious nature of their tribal society.
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. [a] [1]Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by means such as "the disintegration of [its] political and social institutions, of [its] culture, language, national feelings, religion, and [its ...
A one-party state where the ruling party has a monopoly on all political activity. A state ideology upheld by the ruling party that is given official status as the only authority. A state monopoly on information; control of the mass communications media to broadcast the official truth.
Matricide – the act of killing one's mother (Latin: mater "mother"). Neonaticide – the act of killing an infant within the first twenty-four hours or month (varies by individual and jurisdiction) of its life. Nepoticide – the act of killing one's nephew. Parricide or parenticide – the killing of one's mother, father, or other close ...
While ethnic cleansing and genocide may share the same goal and methods (e.g., forced displacement), ethnic cleansing is intended to displace a persecuted population from a given territory, while genocide is intended to destroy a group. [53] [54] Some academics consider genocide to be a subset of "murderous ethnic cleansing". [55]
The Little Mermaid (1989). Of course, this list has to include the evil witch of the sea, Ursula. Ariel is a young mermaid who is fascinated by life on land. On one of her trips to the surface ...
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
From 1992 through the end of Spurrier’s tenure in 2001, both teams were ranked in the top 15 for every single matchup, and only three times was one team even outside the top 10.