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The cartoon's focus is on Scooby and Shaggy who inherits a large sum of money and use that money to thwart world
conquest
plans from a mad scientist and his goons.
A true story about a true revolution, 25 of April ; a revolution against a repressive regime of 41 years, that was imposing a colonial war on it's military's, for maintaining an empire (Angola, Mozambique, Guine-Bissau, Cabo Verde, S. Tomé e Principe; the first and the last of the great colonial empire's of Europe) of 600 years, since it's beginning in the
conquest
of Ceuta in 1415; a revolution by the army for the people, and for a democratic Portugal; the most's surprising fact in this revolution is that it were no people killed in it (except those that died in the hand's of PIDE, the political police of the State, during a brutal gunfire against an unarmed crowd protesting in front of it's headquarters in the day of the revolution, in 25 of April 1974, has it show's on the film).And has all revolutions it has it's heroes, one them of was Captain Salgueiro Maia, a returned soldier from the war, whose convictions along with the rest of the army, was that they were fighting (since 1961) a hopeless war, and that sometimes a soldier has to disobey it's country.
Nekron, Lord of the realm of Ice and his mother Queen Juliana, has set their sights on
conquest
of the known world.
The film here proposes a vision of 2036 with a world government that is absolutely dictatorial in the fact that there is no election, no parliament, no really democratic institution, only peace imposed by military conquest, and the government is dominated by one man or at the most one man and his few councilors.
Hitler's plan was methodical and well conceived, starting with the
conquest
of Eastern Europe, expanding to the European heartland, then moving on to the 'World Island' consisting of Europe, Asia and Africa.
The events of the narrative depict Corbett as a brash but likable and intelligent young man whose
conquest
of the world of boxing and social prejudice in his time, when he was considered merely the son of Irish immigrants, a lowly bank teller and a nobody surprised everyone.
The second of the Why We Fight Series concentrates on Hitler's grab of the Sudetanland and beyond as he makes a chump out of Neville Chamberlain and embarks on his
conquest
of Europe.
Purportedly from the diaries of Cabeza de Vaca, a treasurer for Charles the Fifth of Spain, the film goes from the brutal realism of war to a mystical tour of Indian life to the sad reality of Spanish
conquest.
Mark Lindsay Chapman plays a reporter who discovers a plot by aliens/androids to begin a
conquest
of Earth.
Mid-eighties grade-Z Indiana Jones knockoff starring David O'Hara as beer swilling tomb raider John Banning who unwittingly awakens an Egyptian sorceress Nefratis (Michelle Bauer) and becomes a pawn in her resurrected plans for world conquest, or something to that effect.
Following a similar plot to the skit, Coneheads is the story about the Beldar Conehead family who crash on earth during a scouting mission for planet
conquest.
A wonderful movie that shows the saga of heroes that began the construction of the history of western space
conquest
in parallel with aces that never went to space in despite of their skills, like Chuck Yeager.
Burnt Money is a love story, alone in its
conquest
for equality in the Latin American setting of 1965.
After the
conquest
of this revolution with the help of Soviets a tragic new dictatorship fell over my fatherland for another 33 years which was full with lying and falsification of history.
Beldar(Dan Ackroyd) and Prymatt(Jane Curtain) are on Earth planning to commit world
conquest.
Believe it or not, this film's plot actually ties in various racist/Aryan 'lost civilization' conspiracy theories about prehistoric North American 'Atlanteans'(or Lemurians or the boys from Mu or take your pick) having their plans for world
conquest
thwarted by an act of (a) god.
He viewed Saddam Hussein’s invasion and
conquest
of Kuwait as a threat not just to the region’s critical oil supplies, but also to the emerging post-Cold War world.
Ever since the European powers set sail at the end of the fifteenth century to conquer the world, historiography and international politics have become accustomed to a certain pattern: military, economic, and technological power is translated into the exercise of influence over other countries, conquest, and even global dominance and empire.
In terms of age and profile, he resembles a French version of Hillary Clinton, more practiced in the exercise than the
conquest
of power.
His language is one of resistance to
conquest.
When a war of salvation and survival turned into a war of conquest, occupation, and annexation, the international community recoiled and Israel went on the defensive.
When natural resources dominated production,
conquest
and control of territory seemed a way to enhance national power.
In their excellent book The Internationalists, Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro describe how the idealistic 1928 Briand-Kellogg Pact and its successors dramatically reduced wars of conquest, not by confronting aggressors militarily but by denying them recognition of sovereignty over their ill-gotten gains.
Of course, civilians have always been in the line of fire and conquest, from Troy to Berlin.
While this disagreement was playing out, so was the Muslim
conquest
of Persia, which began just a year after the prophet’s death in 632.
Europeans, unfortunately, too often fail to see the merits of their peaceful
conquest
over their own worst natures.
But, as the late English historian A.J.P. Taylor concluded, after studying eight great wars since the late eighteenth century, wars have often “sprung more from apprehension than from a lust for war or for conquest.”
America’s
conquest
of Iraq de-stabilized Turkey’s Western orientation more than the US cares to admit.
In 1739, the Kohinoor fell into the hands of the Persian invader Nadir Shah, whose loot from his
conquest
of Delhi (and decimation of its inhabitants) also included the priceless Peacock Throne.
Experts have always underestimated the expansionary character of American foreign policy, because they think of expansion in old-world terms: conquest, imperialism, and colonialism.
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