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polis
In ancient Greece, an independent city and its surrounding region under a unified government. A polis might originate from the natural divisions of mountains and sea and from local tribal and cult divisions. Usually the town was walled and contained a citadel on raised ground (acropolis) and a marketplace (agora). Government was centered in the town; usually there was an assembly of citizens, a council, and magistrates. Ideally, all citizens participated in the government and in the cults, defense, and economy. Noncitizens included women, minors, metics, and slaves. Hellenism spread many of the institutions into the Middle East. See also Athens, city-state, Sparta, Thebes.
Helios
Sun god of ancient Greece. He drove his chariot from east to west across the sky each day and sailed across the ocean each night in a huge cup. He was especially worshiped on Rhodes, where he was considered the chief god as early as the 5th cent. BC. In Greece he was later displaced by Apollo.
Palissy
French potter and writer. Known for his decorated rustic ware, a type of earthenware covered with colored lead glazes, he was appointed "inventor of rustic pottery to the king and the queen mother" in 1565. His public lectures on natural history, published in 1580, revealed him to be a writer and scientist, and a pioneer of the scientific method. A Huguenot, he was imprisoned in 1588 in the Bastille, where he died.
Polanski
Polish-French film director. Born to Polish-Jewish parents in Paris, he grew up in Poland and survived a traumatic wartime childhood under the Nazis. His first feature film, Knife in the Water (1962), brought him international fame. He left Poland that year for Britain, where he made Repulsion (1965), and later the U.S., where his Rosemary's Baby (1968) had a huge success. In 1969 his new wife, the actress Sharon Tate, was murdered by followers of C. Manson. He directed a graphic adaptation of Macbeth in 1971, and the acclaimed thriller Chinatown in 1974. Arrested for statutory rape in 1977, he fled to France while out on bail, and there directed Tess (1979), Frantic (1988), Bitter Moon (1992), and Death and the Maiden (1994).
police
Body of agents organized to maintain civil order and public safety, enforce the law, and investigate crime. Characteristics common to most police forces include a quasi-military organization, a uniformed patrol and traffic-control force, plainclothes divisions for criminal investigations, and a set of enforcement priorities that reflects the community's way of life. Administration may be centralized at the national level downward, or decentralized, with local police forces largely autonomous. Recruits usually receive specialized training and take an exam. The modern metropolitan police force began with R. Peel in Britain c.1829. Secret police are often separate, clandestine organizations established by national governments to ...
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