... a closer look cyberpunk authors reveals that they nearly always portray future societies in which governments have become wimpy and pathetic ... Popular science fiction tales by Gibson, Williams, Cadigan and others do depict Orwellian accumulations of power in the next century, but nearly always clutched in the secretive hands of a wealthy or corporate elite.

* 1936 – Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.

In 1936, the left united in the Popular Front and was elected to power.

In 1996, the centre-right Partido Popular government came to power, led by José María Aznar.

*" New Era In Power To Turn Wheels " Popular Science, December 1939, early article on operations of gas turbine power plants, cutaway drawings

The old guard returned Mutalibov to power in May 1992, but less than a week later his efforts to suspend scheduled presidential elections and ban all political activity prompted the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party ( PFP ) to organize a resistance movement and take power.

Popular by acts of graceful but corrupting generosity, by charming manners, and by the appeal of hereditary honours-they collected the material power granted by a multitude of clients and followers, and the intellectual power provided by the monopoly of philosophical education ; their taste in the fine arts, and their knowledge of stylish literature.

In the October 2000 elections, Guéï was defeated by Laurent Gbagbo of the Ivorian Popular Front, but he refused to recognize the result and it took a spate of street protests to bring Gbagbo to power.

Popular culture and mass media are regularly identified as a source of soft power, as is the spread of a national language or a particular set of normative structures ; a nation with a large amount of soft power and the good will that engenders it inspire others to acculturate, avoiding the need for expensive hard power expenditures.

During the 1970s, in the Portuguese African colonies of Mozambique and Angola, upon assuming government power, the Liberation Front of Mozambique ( FRELIMO, Frente de Libertação de Moçambique ) and the People ’ s Movement for the Liberation of Angola — Labour Party ( MPLA, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola — Partido do Trabalho ), respectively, established policies to counter neo-colonial agreements with the ( former ) colonist country.

Popular bands to have emerged from Wales have included the Beatles-nurtured power pop group Badfinger in the 1960s, Man and Budgie in the 1970s and The Alarm in the 1980s.

The Popular Front's founding manifesto condemned the actions of the conservative-led government, demanding the release of political prisoners detained after November 1933, the re-hiring of state employees who had been suspended, fired, or transferred " without due process or for reasons of political persecution ", it proposed establishing an independent judiciary from government control, the investigation and prosecution of acts of unwarranted violence by police, and revision of the Law of Public Order to protect the rights of citizens against arbitrary power.

Further political instability rocked the nation when Luis García Meza was forced to resign, and in 1982 the left wing Democratic and Popular Union ( Unidad Democrática y Popular-UDP ) took power in representative democratic elections, with Hernán Siles Zuazo becoming president.

The leftist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union, came to power.

In 1934, the Communists changed their line, and the four left-wing parties came together in the Popular Front, which won the 1936 elections and brought Blum to power as France's first SFIO Prime Minister.

" Meanwhile, self-declared socialist movements had their own versions of " lesser of two evils " policies such as justifying their Popular Front Against Fascism by arguing that allying with capitalist powers to overthrow fascism would be better than having the latter successfully occupy the world and permanently consolidate power.

Hobbyists and students equipped with wire wrap tools, a ' breadboard ' and a 5-volt power supply could also experiment with digital logic referring to how-to articles in Byte magazine and Popular Electronics which featured circuit examples in nearly every issue.

Popular low power tubes were dual triodes ( ECCnn, 12Ax7 series ) plus the EF86 pentode, and power valves were mostly being beam tetrode and pentodes ( EL84, EL34, KT88 / 6550, 6L6 ), in both cases with indirect heating.

His only real political power at this time lay in the Jacobin Club, which had extended itself beyond the borders of Paris and into the country as a network of " Popular Societies ".

Using vernacular language that would be understandable to the majority of China's populace, he put forward his socialist political views, calling for revolution against the government ; in one notable article, he proclaimed the need for a " Great Union of the Popular Masses ", but failed to put forward an expressly Marxist analysis of how that revolution should proceed.

During the era of the Popular Front, Ryerson wrote in a manner that befell that era and during the time of the Democratic Front he stridently put forth arguments seeking the destruction of Fascism as it was, in his eyes, the best way forward for the working-class.

Popular scientific author and ecologist Jared Diamond has also put forward materialistic explanations, that work within an evolutionary framework, to explain the differences between various cultures almost exclusively through the variations in environmental factors.

A Popular Life of George Fox ( London: Charles Gilpin ).

By the 1970s, the idea that the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore: it was printed in the game's instructions and even in the 1974 book The Monopoly Book: Strategy and Tactics of the World's Most Popular Game by Maxine Brady.

* Book: " Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ", by Charles MacKay

Those stories, and many others, are recounted in Charles Mackay's 1841 popular account, " Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ".

* Accounts of the South Sea Bubble, John Law and the Mississippi Company can be found in Charles Mackay's classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ( 1843 )-available from Project Gutenberg.

The first store was constructed within the present town limits of Haysi by Paris Charles for workers of the Yellow Popular Lumber Company.

* Charles Mackay devoted much of the chapter on " The Slow Poisoners " in Volume 2 of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds to Overbury's death and the various fates of his murderers.

* In Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay, pg 629-630, reported his dismay at hearing the song in London.

In 1960, Ray Charles ' version of " Georgia on My Mind " was a major hit, receiving Grammys both for Best Male Vocal and Best Popular Single.

Charles Mackay, in his Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ( 1841 ), considers the entire story a hoax.

Similar measures, from Frederic the Great's camp at Bunzelwitz, to Arthur Wellesley's with his defense lines at Torres Vedras, to the French lines of Weissenburg, were frequently used .< ref > George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, D. Appleton & Company, 1859, p. 622, ( a work in the public domain ) More than 80, 000 of the best shooters received the semi-automatic RSC 1917 rifle, allowing them to rapid fire at waves of attacking soldiers.

The event was popularized in 1841 by the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, written by British journalist Charles Mackay.

* Perrone, Charles: From Noigandres to " Milagre da Alegria ": The Concrete Poets and Contemporary Brazilian Popular Music, Latin American Music Review, Vol.

* Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, available from Project Gutenberg

Popular proponents of dispensational premillennialism have been John F. MacArthur, Phil Johnson, Ray Comfort, Jerry Falwell, Todd Friel, Dwight Pentecost, John Walvoord ( d. 2002 ), Tim Lahaye, Charles Caldwell Ryrie ( in the notes for the Ryrie Study Bible ), the theological-folk poetry of Jack Royerton, and Charles L. Feinberg.

* Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay's book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, first published in 1841, attests to the practice of and belief in witch doctors in England at the time.

* Wilson, Charles E., Jr., Walter Mosley: A Critical Companion ( Westport, CT, & London: Greenwood Press, 2003 Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers )

An array of such crazes and other historical oddities is narrated in Charles MacKay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ( 1841 ).

* Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, 1841.

In 1978, Charles was a joint winner at the World Popular Song Festival held in Tokyo, performing the tune, " Love Rocks ".

It is in the tradition of Martin Gardner's Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science and Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

* NFB Most Popular Canadian Documentary Award – Peace Out, Charles Wilkinson ( Canada )