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The Horus Heresy is a series of science fantasy novels set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 setting of tabletop miniatures wargame company Games Workshop.Penned by several authors, the series takes place during the Horus Heresy, a fictional galaxy-spanning civil war occurring in the 31st millennium, 10,000 years before the main setting of Warhammer 40,000.
They were in Byzantine service from as early as 874. The Guard was first formally constituted under Emperor Basil II in 988, following the Christianization of Kievan Rus' by Vladimir I of Kiev. Vladimir, who had recently usurped power in Kiev with an army of Varangian warriors, sent 6,000 men to Basil as part of a military assistance agreement.
Pisistratus (also spelled Peisistratus or Peisistratos; Ancient Greek: Πεισίστρατος Peisistratos; c. 600 BC – 527 BC) was a politician in ancient Athens, ruling as tyrant in the late 560s, the early 550s and from 546 BC until his death.
Varangian Guard (2 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Guards units of the Byzantine Empire" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The Tyrant Guard article seems to be a fork from this one that contains very little in the way of real world perspective or info. Pairadox 02:05, 9 September 2007 (UTC) I have to agree on this point, it ought to be folded into the main article. Makingupthenumbers 23:09, 18 November 2007 (UTC) Me too.
Pindar, who lived less than a century afterwards, expressly associates this instrument of torture with the name of the tyrant, [4] while Lucian mentions it in two satirical dialogues, "Phalaris A" and "Phalaris B", he wrote about the tyrant. There was certainly a brazen bull at Agrigentum that was carried off by the Carthaginians to Carthage.
The book I, Tyrant (1996), [11] and the Monstrous Arcana module series that accompanies it, develops the beholder further. I, Tyrant is a supplement focused on beholders, and builds on the known information about beholders by expanding on elements such as their history, religion, culture, habitations and behavior. [12]
Wapedia front page as displayed on a Nokia cellphone. Wapedia was a mobile version of Wikipedia.It was started in August 2004 by Florian Amrhein and shut down on 4 November 2013. [1]