The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor.
Athena guided Odysseus on his way back home. It all started during the war. Odysseus was on the Greeks' side. They were losing badly. He prayed to Athena, and she gave Odysseus the idea of the Trojan Horse. After that, Odysseus became a favorite of Athena.
Aristotle pioneered the use of the term as meaning rule by the rich, for which another term commonly used today is plutocracy. In the early 20th century Robert Michels developed the theory that democracies, as all large organizations, have a tendency to turn into oligarchies.
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