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  2. Paradox Development Studio - Wikipedia

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    The game development studio was one of the first video game developers to create games in the grand strategy genre, and most of the games the studio has developed fall into that category.

  3. Stellaris (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Stellaris received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. [48] A number of reviews emphasized the game's approachable interface and design, along with a highly immersive and almost RPG-like early game heavily influenced by the player's species design decisions, and also the novelty of the end-game crisis events.

  4. List of titles used by dictators - Wikipedia

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    Maréchal ("Marshal") – Between 1940 and 1944, when Marshal Philippe Pétain was Chief of the French State (Vichy France), the name for his military rank became synonymous with Pétain. Though the country retained the Marseillaise as its national anthem, Maréchal, nous voilà ! was widely seen as the alternative Vichy French anthem.

  5. Stellar engine - Wikipedia

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    One of the simplest examples of a stellar engine is the Shkadov thruster (named after Dr. Leonid Shkadov, who first proposed it), or a class-A stellar engine. [5] Such an engine is a stellar propulsion system, consisting of an enormous mirror/light sail—actually a massive type of solar statite large enough to classify as a megastructure—which would balance gravitational attraction towards ...

  6. True name - Wikipedia

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    A true name is a name of a thing or being that expresses, or is somehow identical to, its true nature. The notion that language , or some specific sacred language , refers to things by their true names has been central to philosophical study as well as various traditions of magic , religious invocation and mysticism ( mantras ) since antiquity.

  7. Courtesy name - Wikipedia

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    [4] Another way to form a courtesy name is to use the homophonic character zi (子) – a respectful title for a man – as the first character of the disyllabic courtesy name. Thus, for example, Gongsun Qiao's courtesy name was Zichan (子產), and Du Fu's was Zimei (子美). It was also common to construct a courtesy name by using as the ...

  8. Ozymandias - Wikipedia

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    [4] The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created a poem on the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II under the title of Ozymandias, the Greek name for the pharaoh. Shelley's poem explores the ravages of time and the oblivion to which the legacies of even the greatest are ...

  9. Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders Tennessee and North Carolina to the north, South Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west.