Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History

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University of Minnesota News Service (2013). "Press Releases, 2013". hdl: 11299/163917. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Realize pesticide companies are not referring to caterpillars when they list their products as safe for beneficial insects There is evidence that regicide and the ability of states to keep or even expand their territories are negative correlated: Firstly, elite violence hindered the development of territorial state capacity, and the killing of rulers also directly resulted in a more likely loss of territory. And secondly, state capacity, reflected by territorial state capacity, could be hypothesized to have had a restraining effect on interpersonal violence. This would be consistent with Pinker's (2011) [2] view that modern state capacity leads to a reduction in violence, both interpersonal and in terms of military conflict. [3] Britain [ edit ] Aske’s rebellion was viewed as a serious threat to the Crown as the barrister assembled between 30-40,000 people and occupied York. The Duke of Norfolk was assigned the task to quell both the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion and a new rising called Bigod’s Rebellion led by one Sir Francis Bigod.

The Mikado by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan". gsarchive.net. Archived from the original on 2 October 2017 . Retrieved 29 April 2018. Later, police found clippings on the royal family in Lewis’s squalid flat as well as a detailed map of the Queen’s route that day, with the words “Operation = Ass QUEB” written on the paper. Agrawal went a step further, gathering several long-term tallies of monarch populations at different parts of the life cycle, including the overwintering data, the NABA data and the funnel-point counts. He and several colleagues wanted to see whether population estimates at one stage could predict estimates at the next stage—a chain of connections crucial to the argument that fewer summer milkweed plants in the Midwest led to fewer winter butterflies in Mexico. The scientists reported in 2016 in the journal Oikos and again in 2018 in Science that there was one big gap near the end of this chain: the last end-of-summer counts did not, in fact, predict winter populations. As Ries had found, summer counts stayed roughly constant even when the winter counts fell. Agreeing with Davis, Agrawal and his co-authors suggested that something seemed to be culling monarchs during their southward fall migration, which seemed more important than events during summer breeding. All sides agree that helping the monarch cannot wait until the science is settled. The area of Mexican forest occupied by monarchs plummeted in 2013 to a spot barely larger than a standard soccer pitch, a record low. Although the migratory population has rebounded somewhat since then, most researchers still view its status as precarious. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will rule on the endangered species petition later this year.When King Robert of Naples died in 1343, the throne passed to his teenage granddaughter, Joanna. She was married to her cousin, Prince Andrew of Hungary, and the expectation was that he would rule Naples in her name. But Joanna was a ruthlessly determined young woman who insisted that she was queen and Andrew merely her husband. Charles’s illness was grotesquely misunderstood at the time – interpreted as a sign that the king was probably bewitched; he would even undergo an exorcism in the final years of his life. Not everyone welcomed this perspective, Agrawal says. At a 2012 meeting that Oberhauser hosted at the University of Minnesota, he asked a group of participants what they thought of Davis’s recent paper. Agrawal recalls that Chip Taylor grabbed his arm and asked him not to suggest that a monarch decline might be overstated because it would undermine conservation efforts. “I was in utter disbelief,” Agrawal says. “For somebody to get into your personal space, grab your hand and say, ‘Don’t let me hear you say this’—I’ll never forget it.” Taylor says he does not remember the encounter and doubts it happened. Debbie Felton’s Monsters and monarchs: serial killers in classical myth and history seeks to answer that question in the affirmative, thereby not only providing the first cultural history of serial killing in antiquity for the benefit of classicists and ancient historians, but also adding a significant amount of depth and breadth to the persistent and enthusiastic discussion of contemporary serial killers and killing that occurs in various types of media and has seen a significant rise in popularity over the last few years.

His mother remained regent long after Charles could have taken kingship himself, but it was decided that such a move would be unwise. A struggle for power began when Mariana was exiled, and Don Juan José (Charles’s half-brother) took responsibility for the country and the king.These are the monarch predators that you unwittingly invite in to your cage, trapping them inside with your unsuspecting monarchs. I have done this with small spiders and stink bugs. This can be a problem when you raise on potted plants because of all the nooks and crannies where predators can easily avoid detection.

And the story had a bad guy that the public was already primed to hate. Roundup’s manufacturer, Monsanto (now part of the conglomerate Bayer), embodied many people’s fears about genetic engineering and corporate control of agriculture. So the idea that Monsanto’s flagship product was killing America’s flagship insect made big news. Oberhauser and Pleasants’s hypothesis was widely covered by U.S. media outlets, including this one. One document appears to detail a tip gathered around a month before that visit from San Francisco police regarding a phone call from “a man who claimed that his daughter had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet.” Saunders, S. P.; Ries, L.; Oberhauser, K. S.; Thogmartin, W. E. & Zipkin, E. F. (2018). "Local and cross‐seasonal associations of climate and land use with abundance of monarch butterflies Danaus plexippus". Ecography. 41 (2): 278-290. With Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, the MonsterVerse heads down the same road to ruin that has plagued (and is still plaguing) Marvel: Trying and failing to port the big-budget spectacle of Godzilla to TV.

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Rome's third emperor started off his reign with a lot of potential. The Great Courses Daily reports that at the time of his accession, Caligula was greeted with great enthusiasm. At 25, he was young and was very careful to do and say the right things to get the Roman Senate and the populace behind him.

Unfortunately, Charles also made enemies of the wealthy Erembald family, who had risen to power under even more dramatic circumstances. The original Erembald was a serf who served the castellan of Bruges—while secretly having an affair with his wife. One day, the castellan was urinating over the side of a boat when Erembald shoved him into the water, where he drowned. Erembald then married his widow and became the new castellan. Kirby 1999, pp.10, 13 footnotes 12 and 17. "The record of the Trial also appears in Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials, Vol IV, covering 1640–1649 published in London in 1809. p. 995".Some experts and enthusiasts disagree with spritzing milkweed leaves, but imagine eating food for two weeks without water…and staying healthy?! Regicide is the purposeful killing of a monarch or sovereign of a polity and is often associated with the usurpation of power. A regicide can also be the person responsible for the killing. The word comes from the Latin roots of regis and cida ( cidium), meaning "of monarch" and "killer" respectively. olayi001 (2015-01-22). "Karen Oberhauser". Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology . Retrieved 2019-03-08. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) The rebellion was initiated after a poor harvest in 1535 led to high food prices. Due to King Henry’s Reformation which saw many monasteries dissolved, the poor were unable to turn to them for food and shelter. The rebellion also involved a religious and political angle in that many people who had loved Queen Catherine were appalled by the King’s divorce and his marriage to Anne Boleyn while also seeing their Catholic faith betrayed by new Protestant doctrines. While Monarch: Legacy of Monsters does have some thrilling titan fights, the show doesn’t present itself as a kaiju free-for-all. This sci-fi series is a human drama through and through.