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1911 encyclopedia

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FACTION (through the French, from Lat. .factio, a company of persons combined for action, facere, to do; from the other French derivative facon comes "fashion"), a term, used especially with an opprobrious meaning, for a body of partisans who put their party aims and interests above those of the state or public, and employ unscrupulous or questionable means; it is thus a common term of reciprocal abuse between parties.^ User agents that use other presentation mechanisms can derive their expected behavior by translating from the CSS rules given in this section.
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 ^ The lesson for us in the United States is to avoid appeasing those who openly seek to annihilate us and who are amassing the means to do so.
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 ^ The name "tab index" comes from the common use of the "tab" key to navigate through the focusable elements.
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 In the history of the Roman and Later Roman empires the factions (factiones) of the circus and hippodrome, at Rome and Constantinople, played a prominent part in politics. The factiones were properly the four companies into which the charioteers were divided, and distinguished by the colours they wore. .Originally at Rome there were only two, white (albata) and red (russata), when each race was open to two chariots only; on the increase to four, the green (prasina) and blue (veneta) were added.^ U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F, zero-padding if necessary, and append these numbers to result , in the order red, green, blue.
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 ^ The data must be represented in left-to-right order, row by row top to bottom, starting with the top left, with each pixel's red, green, blue, and alpha components being given in that order for each pixel.
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 ^ U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F, with the first two digits representing the red component, the middle two digits representing the green component, and the last two digits representing the blue component, in hexadecimal.
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 At Constantinople the last two absorbed the red and white factions.
For a brilliant description of the factions at Constantinople under Justinian, and the part they played in the celebrated Nika riot in January 532, see Gibbon's Decline and Fall, ch. xl.; and J. B. Bury's Appendix io in vol. iv. of his edition (1898), for a discussion of the relationship between the factiones and the demes of Constantinople.

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Simple English

Faction or factionalism can refer to:

  • Faction, design movement. Fusing facts and fiction to implement new ideologies and to change view on design products and public space design. Group of artists which started public interventions in the Netherlands in 2007. faction.nl
  • Political faction, a group of people connected by a shared belief or opinion within a larger group. For example Elizabeth's faction.
  • Faction (literature), a type of historical novel rooted in fact.
  • Faction (Planescape), political factions in the game, Planescape.
  • Guild Wars: Factions, a computer game developed by ArenaNet.
  • FACTION 28, a music channel on SIRIUS Satellite Radio.....
  • Faction (musical project), a British/Israeli electronic music project
  • The Faction, a Punk rock band.

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