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"Perfidious Albion" is a pejorative phrase used within the context of international relations diplomacy to refer to acts of diplomatic slights, duplicity, treachery and hence infidelity (with respect to perceived promises made to or alliances formed with other nation states) by monarchs or governments of the United Kingdom (or Great Britain ...
—Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Universe, 393b Pliny the Elder, in the fourth book of his Natural History likewise calls Great Britain Albion. He begins his chapter on the British Isles as follows, after describing the Rhine delta: Ex adverso huius situs Britannia insula clara Graecis nostrisque monimentis inter septentrionem et occidentem iacet, Germaniae, Galliae, Hispaniae, multo maximis ...
In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deceptive tactic where one side pretends to act in good faith, such as signaling a truce (e.g., raising a white flag), but does so with the deliberate intention of breaking that promise.
That continued after the war, with cartoons, and many posters set out to remind the French of past relations with "perfidious Albion". [48] The attack on Mers-el-Kébir was exploited to depict Frenchmen dying and Churchill as a killer. [49] A widely used propaganda poster urged the "abandoned populations" to have confidence in the German ...
In Issue 7 of Perfidious Albion, Charles Vasey wrote, "Every now and then one makes a discovery that makes all the trash worth it, Chimaera is such a magazine ... This really is a splendid 'zine, try a copy. It will certainly affect the way I present things in Perfidious Albion." [3]
Airbnb, Lyft and Uber are helping those displaced by the devastating wildfires in Southern California, which have already destroyed almost 2,000 buildings and forced 130,000 people to evacuate ...
Charles Vasey reviewed Two Towers in Perfidious Albion #1 (January 1976) and stated that "Indeed this whole game is not really a full simulation. It is a game with room for expansion."
A new federal report shows that one drink per day could raise the risk of liver damage and several cancers. The report follows a recommendation by the U.S. Surgeon General on safe alcohol ...