You can tell it as the rise and fall of powers, or as the painful recovery from modern society's relapses into barbarism.
It is absorbing to read the 400 years of rise and fall of powers since the Westphalia peace conference, and the wars and conflicts that led to power shifting.
The past few years have seen incredible upheavals in energy markets driven by the rise and rise (or more appropriately fall and fall) of solar power.
Built from the fortunes made in the silver mines to the north, Querétaro's graceful plazas and baroque chapels, preserved in much of their original splendor, were settings for the rise and fall of colonial power in Mexico.
By the temporal fall of the power spectral density the beginning and the end of the coating removal could be identified.
He added: "If writers fall silent in the face of power, of the darkness, then everyone will fall silent.
Tuyen fell out of power, after a failed coup, and An moved from V.T.X. to Reuters and from there to Time.
In a larger sense, though, Mr. Merabishvili was Exhibit A of the consequences of falling out of power in this part of the world, which can mean not just losing a job but facing prosecution, prison, exile or worse.
Athenian drama returns obsessively — as we do, every November 22nd — to the shocking and yet seemingly inevitable spectacle of the fallen king, of power and beauty and privilege violently laid low.
