... 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.

Popular modern computer games with an " Arabian Nights " theme include Nadirim, a game placed in a fantasy world inspired by the tales of the 1001 Nights.

Popular tales include narratives where mothers save the family from armed robbery and other incidents by taking the automobile off road, for example.

Popular folk tales are listed below.

* Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales ( 1849 ), by James Halliwell, a discussion on the origin of English folk tales and rhymes.

Popular performances included Sri Krishna ’ s exploits in the holy land of Vrindavan, and tales of Krishna-Leela ( Krishna ’ s childhood ).

Popular themes of these poets were Christian legends, lives of saints, and tales from classical antiquity.

Popular themes in the sweet Lolita are references to Alice in Wonderland, sweets, and classic fairy tales.

The publication of tales from the Highlands (, Popular Tales of the West Highlands ) predate the Irish tales becoming available in print.

He wrote the " Popular Tales of Lorraine ," in the introduction to which he argues for the theory that the development as well as the origin of such tales is historically traceable to India.

Popular critics of unschooling tend to view it as an extreme educational philosophy, with concerns that unschooled children lack the social skills, structure, and motivation of their peers, especially in the job market, while proponents of unschooling say exactly the opposite is true: self-directed education in a natural environment makes a child more equipped to handle the " real world.

Popular choices for constructing DOPs in 3-D graphics include the axis-aligned bounding box, made from 6 axis-aligned planes, and the beveled bounding box, made from 10 ( if beveled only on vertical edges, say ) 18 ( if beveled on all edges ), or 26 planes ( if beveled on all edges and corners ).

Popular Christian legends recalls Saint Monica to have wept every night for her son, Saint Augustine.

Gaullism in France continues under the Union for a Popular Movement.

The Partido Liberal, Neto, Auténtico y Completo, an independence political party, later became the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) which would ironically end up promoting the " Estado Libre Associado " ( Free Associated State ) status that Barceló, as president of Union Party, had asked for in 1923 under Campbell Bill and which Muñoz Marín had always opposed, instead of independence.

In April 1940, Popular Science showed an example of a radar unit using the Watson-Watt patent in an article on air defence, but not knowing that the U. S. Army and U. S. Navy were working on radars with the same principle, stated under the illustration, " This is not U. S. Army equipment.

The French CGT leadership under Léon Jouhaux faced similar criticism from its own left-wing, after its close collaboration with Government during the First World War and, later, the Popular Front ( France ); However, unlike the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists, on both occasions the CGT stopped short of full Cabinet participation.

The German Popular Front under the leadership of Heinrich Mann in Paris was dissolved after a campaign of behind-the-scenes jockeying by Ulbricht to place the organization under the control of the Comintern.

* Under the Popular Front ( Radicals, SFIO, PCF ) in 1936 to 1938 under Socialist Léon Blum and then Radical Camille Chautemps.

He served the term in Poulo Condor Island Prison until 1936 when he was released under the general amnesty granted by the government of the Popular Front in France after its recent electoral successes.

Popular tradition maintains that Church Creek predates Cambridge, Maryland as the earliest settlement in Dorchester County, first established at some point before 1684 under the name Dorchester Town and then White Haven.

By the 1960s sales of the Americana and its sister publications under Grolier — The Book of Knowledge, the Book of Popular Science, and Lands and Peoples — were strong enough to support the company's occupancy of a large building ( variously named the Americana Building and the Grolier Building ) in Midtown Manhattan, at 575 Lexington Avenue.

Popular songs by contemporary artists not specific to Earth Day that are under copyright or new lyrics adapted to children's songs.

Back in 1936 the Billancourt factory had been at the heart of violent political and industrial unrest that had surfaced in France under Leon Blum ’ s Popular Front government: although the political jostling and violence that followed the liberation was ostensibly a backlash from the rivalries between capitalist collaboration and communist resistance, many of the scores being settled actually predated the German invasion.

* Primarily subhead Popular Merrymaking under Liturgy and Custom.

Cover of an American Communist pamphlet from the Popular Front period making use of patriotic themes under the slogan " Communism is the Americanism ( ideology ) | Americanism of the 20th Century.

There were attempts in the United Kingdom to found a Popular Front against the National Government's appeasement of Nazi Germany, between the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, the Independent Labour Party, the Communist Party, and even rebellious elements of the Conservative Party under Winston Churchill, but they failed mainly due to opposition from within the Labour Party but incompatibility of Liberal and socialist approaches also caused many Liberals to be hostile.

Deepest known sinkhole under the sea, depth 203 m. Popular location for world championships of free diving.

However, the ELA Soberano or " Sovereign Commonwealth ," a principle based on the development of Puerto Rico's political status based on autonomy has been approved by the Popular Democratic Party, one of the two major parties, for more than a decade after winning the 1998 referendum under the fifth column.

Following the November, 2011 Spanish General Election, on June 1, 2012 the new conservative Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy reopened the monument to the public with the exception only of the base of the cross, in the past accessible by cable car or on foot, which will remain closed to ascent while the sculptures of the four apostles and the cardinal virtues forming part of the base of the cross are presently under engineering review and restoration for cracks and other deterioration.

Popular mangrove habitats in Hong Kong are located along Deep Bay, such as Pak Nai and Tsim Bei Tsui, where salinity is very low under the influence of fresh water from the Pearl River, and along some mud flats where salinity is lowered by surrounding streams, such as Three Fathoms Cove and Ting Kok.

The Popular Front government soon collapsed under the strain of domestic ( financial problems, including inflation ) and foreign policy issues ( the radicals were against an intervention in the Spanish Civil War while the socialists and communists were in favour ), and was replaced by Édouard Daladier's government.

* Bagtime ( Popular Library, 1977 ) ( collection of columns written with Paul Galloway, from the perspective of fictitious supermarket bagboy Mike Holiday, under which name the book was published ; also turned into a stage play and TV movie ) ISBN 0-445-04057-2

The crisis in Spain also brought down the Popular Front government in France under Léon Blum.

Lee Felsenstein and Bob Marsh banded together to create a fully contained computer for an issue of Popular Electronics that they called SOL that sold for under a thousand dollars.

* Primarily subhead Popular Merrymaking under Liturgy and Custom.

Popular items on the menu are roast beef sandwiches and fried chicken, which was advertised by Roy Rogers under the " Pappy Parker " name in the 1980s using a cartoon prospector.

Popular homemade drinks are lime water ( like lemonade ), mauby, made from the bark of a tree ; sorrel drink, made from hibiscus ; ginger beer ( made from ginger root ), and peanut punch.

Popular among the Northern Dong and is commemorated by an ancient tree.

Popular data structures implementing this type of tree include:

Popular tradition even has it that the tree only buds on Old Christmas Day on January 6, refusing to acknowledge the Gregorian calendar change of 1752.