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World domination (also called global domination, world conquest, global conquest, or cosmocracy) is a hypothetical power structure, either achieved or aspired to, in which a single political authority holds the power over all and/or virtually all the inhabitants of Earth. Various individuals or regimes have tried to achieve this goal throughout ...
The book was translated into English in 1994 as Napoleon and the Conquest of the World 1812-1832: A Fictional History, though copies of the translation are quite rare. 1836, when the book was published, was the year in which Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte - Napoleon I's nephew, the future Emperor Napoleon III - launched a failed coup attempt and had ...
Cosmos was considered to be both a scientific and literary achievement, immensely popular among nineteenth-century readers. [1] Although the book bore the daunting subtitle of A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, and had an index that ran to more than 1,000 pages, the first volume sold out in two months, the work was translated ...
Synonyms are also found in Latin authors (totum, mundus, natura) [36] and survive in modern languages, e.g., the German words Das All, Weltall, and Natur for universe. The same synonyms are found in English, such as everything (as in the theory of everything), the cosmos (as in cosmology), the world (as in the many-worlds interpretation), and ...
Conquest of the New World, a turn-based strategy game made by Quicksilver Software in 1996; Conquest, a strategy board game by Donald Benge; Duell (game), a chess variant, called Conquest in the UK; Conquest: Frontier Wars, a 2001 real-time strategy computer game for the PC by Ubi Soft
The ancient Indians mapped out the outer world or the universe at an altar where Yajurveda listed multiples of ten that reached ten million. The numbers used to count to ten million was used as a reference to show the relation of the planets in the universe to Earth, it was not a relevant scale to the entire universe, therefore backing that ...
Year 501: The Conquest Continues, by Noam Chomsky, first published in 1993, outlines a history of the world from 1492 to 1992 as a response to celebrations of the Columbus Quincentenary. Chomsky describes the book as "concerned with central themes of the 500-year European conquest of the world that was commemorated on October 12, 1992 the forms ...
Page one of Aristotle's On the Heavens, from an edition published in 1837. On the Heavens (Greek: Περὶ οὐρανοῦ; Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BCE, [1] it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world.