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Praetorian Prefects
Praetorian is an adjective derived from the ancient Roman office of praetor. It may refer to: Government and military * Legatus (Praetorian legate), the title of a high military rank in the Roman Empire * Praetorian Guard, a special force of skilled and celebrated troops serving as the personal guard of Roman Emperors * Praetorian prefect, the title of a high office in the Roman Empire Places * Praetorian prefecture, the largest administrative division of the late Roman Empire, above the mid-level dioceses and the low-level provinces ** Praetorian prefecture of Africa, division of the Eastern Roman Empire established after the reconquest of northwestern Africa from the Vandals ** Praetorian prefecture of Gaul, included Gaul, Upper and Lower Germany, Roman Britain, Spain and Mauretania Tingitana in Africa ** Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum, included, in its greatest expanse, Pannonia, Noricum, Crete and most of the Balkan peninsula except Thrace ** Praetorian prefecture of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praetor
''Praetor'' ( , ), also ''pretor'', was the title granted by the government of ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected ''magistratus'' (magistrate), assigned to discharge various duties. The functions of the magistracy, the ''praetura'' (praetorship), are described by the adjective itself: the ''praetoria potestas'' (praetorian power), the ''praetorium imperium'' (praetorian authority), and the ''praetorium ius'' (praetorian law), the legal precedents established by the ''praetores'' (praetors). ''Praetorium'', as a substantive, denoted the location from which the praetor exercised his authority, either the headquarters of his ''castra'', the courthouse (tribunal) of his judiciary, or the city hall of his provincial governorship. The minimum age for holding the praetorship was 39 during the Roman Republic, but it was later changed to 30 in the early Empire. History of the title The status of the ''pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praetorian (novel)
''Praetorian'' (2011) is the eleventh book in the '' Eagles of the Empire'' series by Simon Scarrow. Plot summary Macro and Cato are spending their days at an inn in Ostia, awaiting orders from Emperor Claudius's secretary, Narcissus. Narcissus finally arrives and orders the duo to go undercover in the Praetorian Guard to uncover a plot to assassinate the emperor. As instructed, the duo joins the Praetorian guard under different names and try to uncover the plot. During their operation they face their old foe, Vitellius Aulus Vitellius ( ; ; 24 September 1520 December 69) was Roman emperor for eight months, from 19 April to 20 December AD 69. Vitellius became emperor following the quick succession of the previous emperors Galba and Otho, in a year of civil wa .... They succeed in saving the emperor on more than one occasion. In the climax, it is hinted that they will return to Britain to help in the invasion there. References * 2011 British novels Eagles of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torsus Praetorian
The Torsus Praetorian is a 4x4 off-road bus. It is manufactured by Torsus, a Czech company, set up by Ukrainians Vakhtang Dzukashvili and Yuliya Khomych as a subsidiary of their Pulsar Expo company. It can seat up to 35 people, has of ground clearance, and has a six-cylinder diesel engine. The off-road bus is suited to specific industries such as oil and gas, forestry, mining, disaster and emergency response, expeditions, safaris, and ski resorts. The Praetorian is built in partnership with MAN A man is an adult male human. Before adulthood, a male child or adolescent is referred to as a boy. Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromosome from the f ... and can be serviced at MAN's service centres. "TORSUS PRAETORIAN EMPTY SHELL BUS is designed for next stage conversion in verity of versions, mainly for command control centers, RV, laboratories, mobile clinics etc. Feel free to embody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praetorians Roma
The United Rugby Championship (URC) is an annual rugby union competition involving professional teams from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa, and Wales. For sponsorship reasons the league is known as the Vodacom United Rugby Championship in South Africa, and the BKT United Rugby Championship in the competition's other territories, the split branding mirroring the format previously adopted in Super Rugby. The Championship represents the highest level of domestic club or franchise rugby in each of its constituent countries. The Championship is one of the three major professional leagues in Europe (along with the English Premiership and the French Top 14), the most successful teams from which go forward to compete in the highest-level continental club competitions, the European Rugby Champions Cup and Challenge Cup. Since 2022–23 South African teams have been eligible to qualify for European competitions. Name The tournament has had a number of names as it has grown, bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pax Praetoriana
''Pax Praetoriana'' (or ''Pax Pretoriana'') refers to the relative stability of modern South Africa and the ( economically and politically) dominant foreign policy of the country towards the African continent and its encouragement of stable, accountable, democratic governments in other African states. The term '' Pax Nigeriana'' is sometimes used in relation to Nigeria's similar status. Both these terms derive from the expression ''Pax Romana'' – the Roman peace. The term ''Praetoriana'' also derives from Pretoria, the administrative capital city of South Africa. Critics of South African foreign policy (including political allies of the ANC such as the trade union organization COSATU), especially under former president Thabo Mbeki, point to domestic problems such as unemployment, crime and the scourge of AIDS that remain unresolved, and question the value of the ANC's policy of "quiet diplomacy" towards the Zimbabwean government during its current period of repressive rul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praetorian Palace
The Praetorian Palace (, ) is a 15th-century Venetian Gothic architecture, Venetian Gothic palace in the city of Koper, in southwest Slovenia. Located on the southern side of the city's central Josip Broz Tito, Tito Square (at ''Titov trg/piazza Tito 3''), it houses the Koper city government and a wedding hall. It is considered one of the city's architectural landmarks. History An earlier municipal hall existed on the same site by 1254, before the square itself (then called the ''Platei Comunis'', established around 1268.) Work on a new building began after the original was destroyed during a major revolt in 1348, but the incomplete building was again destroyed in 1380 by a Republic of Genoa, Genoese raid that sacked and burned the city in that year, during the War of Chioggia. The current structure dates from the mid-15th century, having been begun in 1452-1453. The left wing and the portico leading from the square to the colorful ''via Calegaria'' (''Čevljarska ulica'', "Cobb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praetorian Building
The Praetorian Building, also known as Stone Place Tower, was a 15-story, high-rise constructed in 1909 at Main Street and Stone Street in the Main Street District of downtown Dallas, Texas. It was regarded the first skyscraper in Texas and the first skyscraper in the Southwestern United States. It was among the first skyscrapers built in the entire Western United States, following the 1885 Lumber Exchange Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota and other taller towers in Minneapolis, San Francisco, Omaha, and Kansas City. However, the Praetorian Building remained the tallest building in Dallas only until 1912. It was tall with 15 floors of office space. Plans for its redevelopment were eventually disbanded and the building's deconstruction was completed in the summer of 2013. History The Praetorian Tower was conceived as the national headquarters of the Praetorian Order, a fraternal insurance company based in Dallas. The mostly empty plot of land at Main Street and Stone Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Rock Galactic
''Deep Rock Galactic'' is a cooperative first-person shooter video game developed by Danish studio Ghost Ship Games and published by Coffee Stain Publishing. ''Deep Rock Galactic'' was fully released on May 13, 2020 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One after its early access release in February 28, 2018. The game was later released for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in January 2022, and for Xbox Series X/S in September 2022. ''Deep Rock Galactic'' is set on the alien planet of Hoxxes IV, whose caves are rich in minerals but filled with hostile wildlife and hazardous environments. The player controls a dwarf miner employed by Deep Rock Galactic, an intergalactic mining corporation that sends employees into the caves of Hoxxes IV to extract resources. Players can team up with up to three other dwarves on missions into the planet, where they must navigate procedurally generated caves and complete objectives while fighting alien swarms. The game received positive reviews from cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Max
''Mad Max'' is an Australian media franchise created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy. It centres on a series of post-apocalyptic and dystopian action films. The franchise began in 1979 with '' Mad Max'', and was followed by three sequels: ''Mad Max 2'' (1981; released in the United States as ''The Road Warrior''), '' Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (1985) and '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' (2015); Miller directed or co-directed all four films. A spin-off, '' Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga'', was released in 2024 and was also directed by Miller. Mel Gibson originally portrayed the series's title character, Max Rockatansky, in the first three films, while Tom Hardy and Jacob Tomuri portrayed the character in the later two films. The series follows Max, who starts the series as a police officer in a future Australia which is experiencing societal collapse due to war, critical resource shortages, and ecocide. As Australia devolves further into barbarity, Max becomes a wandering drifter in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Net (1995 Film)
''The Net'' is a 1995 American action thriller film directed by Irwin Winkler and starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, and Dennis Miller. The film was released on July 28, 1995. In the film, a systems analyst with few personal contacts learns that all records about her life have been deleted, that her house has also been emptied, and she must now find a way to reclaim her original identity. Plot United States Under Secretary of Defense Michael Bergstrom commits suicide after being informed that he has tested positive for HIV. Angela Bennett is a freelance systems analyst worker in Venice, California. Her relationships are almost completely online and on the phone, with the exception of forgettable interactions with her neighbors and visits to her mother, who is institutionalized with Alzheimer's disease and often forgets who she is. Bennett's co-worker Dale, in San Francisco, sends her a floppy disk of the band website "Mozart's Ghost" with a backdoor labeled " π" that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Praetorian
The Collegiate Network (CN) is a program that provides financial and technical assistance to student editors and writers of roughly 100 independent, conservative and libertarian publications at colleges and universities around the United States. Member publications have a combined annual distribution of more than two million. Since 1995, the CN has been administered by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a nonprofit educational organization that promotes conservative thought on college campuses, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. Mission According to its web site, CN supports college publications which "serve to focus public awareness on the politicization of American college and university classrooms, curricula, student life, and the resulting decline of educational standards." Newspapers and journals in the CN regularly call attention to what they interpret as corruption and hypocrisy in campus administrations' and student groups' policies, argue in favor of free ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
