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How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive is a 2024 non-fiction book written by Marcel Dirsus and published by John Murray. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book examines historical strategies for overthrowing dictators and their effectiveness in the modern era, particularly in the context of contemporary mass surveillance technologies.
Sic semper tyrannis is a Latin phrase meaning "thus always to tyrants". In contemporary parlance, it means tyrannical leaders will inevitably be overthrown. The phrase also suggests that bad but justified outcomes should, or eventually will, befall tyrants. It is the state motto of the U.S. state of Virginia.
The game was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on November 10, 2016. While not a sequel, Tyranny builds upon the gameplay and engine used in Obsidian's previous title Pillars of Eternity, allowing the developers to spend more time on crafting a game where player choices have a more meaningful effect on the game's story. The game ...
Milton begins The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates by paraphrasing the words of Sallust to describe the nature of tyranny: [10] Hence is it that Tyrants are not oft offended, nor stand much in doubt of bad men, as being all naturally servile; but in whom vertue and true worth most is eminent, them they feare in earnest, as by right thir Maisters ...
A version of Heinz Doofenshmirtz who has overtaken the Tri-state area in a future altered by a grown-up Candace. Some of his notable policies include making labcoats a mandatory uniform, and renaming everyone to Joe in order to not have to remember names. Sheldon Plankton: Bikini Bottom: Chum Bucket Restaurant: SpongeBob SquarePants
The members of the Thirty Tyrants were not granted amnesty until they successfully defended themselves at their euthunai, a process in which government officials account for their actions that took place during their terms. It is unclear whether this speech was delivered at Eratosthenes's euthunai, at a separate homicide trial, or at all. [1]
The Void, also known as Tension (Russian: Тургор/Turgor), is a 2008 Russian first-person adventure video game developed by the Russian studio Ice-Pick Lodge and published in Russia, other CIS-countries, and Poland by ND Games on 17 April 2008.
Whose people's blood has stained your tyrant hand, And desecrate the magic of this earth, sowing your thorns, to bring despair to birth, Patience! Let not the Spring delude you now, The morning light, the skies’ unclouded brow; Fear gathers in the broad horizon's murk Where winds are rising, and deep thunders lurk;