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Fallen is a 1998 American supernatural thriller film [2] directed by Gregory Hoblit, produced by Charles Roven and Dawn Steel, from a screenplay by Nicholas Kazan. Denzel Washington plays a Philadelphia police detective who is investigating occult murders committed by an apparent copycat killer.
Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (November 3, 1867 – August 13, 1906) was an Anglo-American novelist and dramatist who wrote under the pen-name of John Oliver Hobbes.Though her work fell out of print in the twentieth century, her first book Some Emotions and a Moral was a sensation in its day, selling eighty thousand copies in only a few weeks.
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as pictured in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a penalty in England, Wales, Ireland and the United Kingdom for several crimes, but mainly for high treason .
"Naughty" John Hobbes is a dead serial killer, accidentally summoned by an ouija board, who kills to become the living avatar of a Christian cult known as The Brethren. He was hanged in the 1870s but his dark religious rituals afforded him a way to return after death as a ghost.
These individuals lost their heads intentionally (as a form of execution or posthumously). A list of people who were decapitated accidentally, including animal-related deaths, can be found at List of people who were decapitated. Salome and the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, by Titian The Beheading of Saint Paul. Painting by Enrique Simonet ...
— Diogenes, Greek Cynic philosopher (323 BCE), asking for his body to be thrown outside the city wall for animals to eat "To the strongest." [8] [19] [note 7] ("Τῷ κρατίστῳ") — Alexander the Great, conqueror and king of Macedonia (c. 11 June 323 BCE), when asked to whom his vast empire should belong after his death
De Cive is the first of a trilogy of works written by Hobbes dealing with human knowledge, the other two works in the trilogy being De Corpore ("On the body"), published in 1655 and De Homine ("On man"), published in 1658.
Hobbes then is a supporter of an "absolute sovereignty, embodied in a monarch or corporate body of individuals; Kant is a supporter of popular sovereignty, embodied in the law-making powers of a group of the people's representatives". [16] Another key difference between the two philosophers is the way that the laws of the land should be ...