His religious flowering is not the result of a sudden conversion; it grows out of the complex response to a battery of personal and political horrors: experience in the field during the English Civil War; the execution of Charles I and declaration of the Commonwealth; the death of Vaughan's first wife and his younger brother.
The following decade-the grim years of revolution, power struggles, mass executions, civil war, economic depression and war with Iraq-is notably under-documented.
In other words, the Quangel's had already acquiesced in the abolition of democracy, the curtailment of civil rights, extrajudicial executions, the persecution of the Jews and Gypsies, and a war of aggression against Poland that resulted in mass atrocity.
Civil wars and executions continued, culminating in the victory of Octavian, Caesar's adopted son, over Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the annexation of Egypt.
Rouhani is presenting himself as the anti-Ahmadinejad, reasonable where Ahmadinejad was fanatical, releasing some political prisoners and promising towrite a new code of civil liberties (although executions in Iran have increased by a third since his electoral victory, and there is no noticeable drop in arrests of dissidents), and even (maybe) wishing the Jews of the world a happy new year.
The most jarring elements of Nature; fire & water themselves are not more incompatible that [FN10] such a mixture of civil liberty and military execution.
During the tumultuous years of the English Revolution and Restoration, national crises like civil wars and the execution of the king convinced Englishmen that the end of the world was not only inevitable but imminent.
2. Wtihout in any way adversely affecting the substantive rights and positions of the litigants concerned, Japan will assume jurisdiction over and continue to judgment and execution any civil cases pending as of the date of entry into force of this agreement in any court in the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands.
Meanwhile, shoot forward to the 17th Century and James I's second son Charles I found his "divine right" to rule curtailed with a civil war and consequent execution.
