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SHADE Corps's Dictator-Class Dreadnought is a special assault vehicle built from the strange technology on the Big World combined with the minifigure's innate ability to construct things with available things on hand.
This dreadnought are able to transport troops while providing heavy support in an assault operation. It is highly dangerous with it's various armaments available such as missile launchers, anti-air cannon, artillery gun, and the troops even can shoot from the firing ports on the sides and rear.
Powered by strange crystal contained on it's reactor, it can move both on land and floats on water, making it dangerous also in naval battle.
PS. yup, i know it's not even a lego build, it's only several parts of it lego, which is the cockpit and the side reactor, which is even unseen because of the chimney on the center. but this build also represents something related in my minifigure war between CSF and SHADE Corps.
Berlin. 2016.
"Freiheit für die HDP Vorsitzenden und Abgeordneten".
Thorsten Strasas. - Wien | Berlin. - Photographers in Solidarity.
El PP Totalitari contra la Democràcia Parlamentària.
Ara diu el Partit Popular que aprovarà la seua polèmica llei de 'Regeneració Democràtica' AMB L'ACORD O SENSE DEL PARLAMENT ESPANYOL. És a dir, el PP vol carregar-se d'una pantoflada l'actual Democràcia Parlamentària, invocant a una 'pseudo-democràcia' que emana únicament de la cúpula del seu mastodòntic partit. Una decisió legislativa imposada, com sempre, a colp de Decret Llei en aquest Estat rosegat fins el moll de l'os per la corrupció endèmica del PP i d'altres partits similars. La pudor del totalitarisme, llargament covat a l'ombra, s'escampa a l'ambient i es torna a cada glopada més viciat, irrespirable i asfixiant.
¿Per què no ho diuen clarament?: "Desde el Partido Popular vamos a regenerar la democracia española instaurando una nueva dictadura fascista, la cual para su tranquilidad volverá, como la otra, a durar la tira...."
Així ens entendrem millor, home, i sabrem de què va aquesta PPantomima.... Amb mentides i hiPPocresies han deixat marejada a mitja Espanya, la mitja Espanya que encara voldria creure-se'ls i que dia a dia se’n desvincula més. Si és que els dirigents populars els ho posen ben difícil, fins i tot als seus propis fidels.
Vinga, va, PoPulins, una mica de sinceritat, que no costa tant. Si ho demostreu cada volta amb els fets, ¿per què no ho expresseu amb paraules, també?: "Los del PP estamos orgullosos de seguir los pasos de Hitler, Mussolini i Franco, con el fin de devolverle a España la perdida gloria nacional e imponerle a todo Cristo la unidad, a imagen y semejanza de nuestro añorado Caudillo salvador. Al fin y al cabo, con Franco vivíamos mejor. ¡Arriba España!"
Sí home, clar, esclafant a aquells que hi pensaven diferent, ¡doncs clar que hi podríeu viure bé! Però.... ¿i la resta del poble? ¿S'ho passaria tan PiPa com vosaltres? ¿Em permeteu efectuar una enquesta, una consulta o un referèndum per conéixer l'opinió de la gent? ¡Oh!, perdó, he pronunciat la paraula tabú: CONEIXEMENT....
Sueca, País Valencià, Marènia. 9-8-2014.
Joanjo Aguar Matoses.
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* Traducción al español.
El PP Totalitario contra la Democracia Parlamentaria.
Ahora dice el PP que aprobará su polémica ley de 'Regeneración Democrática' CON O SIN EL ACUERDO DEL PARLAMENTO ESPAÑOL. Es decir, el PP quiere cargarse de un plumazo la actual Democracia Parlamentaria, invocando a una 'pseudo-democracia' que emana únicamente de la cúpula de su mastodóntico partido. Una decisión legislativa impuesta, como siempre, a golpe de Decreto Ley en este Estado roído hasta el tuétano por la corrupción endémica del PP y de otros partidos similares. El hedor del totalitarismo, largamente incubado en la sombra, se esparce en el ambiente y se vuelve a cada bocanada más viciado, irrespirable y asfixiante.
¿Por qué no lo dicen claramente?: "Desde el Partido Popular vamos a regenerar la democracia española instaurando una nueva dictadura fascista, la cual para su tranquilidad volverá, como la otra, a durar la tira...."
Así nos entenderemos mejor, hombre, y sabremos de qué va esta PPantomima.... Con mentiras e hiPPocresías han dejado mareada a media España, la media España que todavía quisiera creerles y que día a día se desvincula más. Si es que los dirigentes populares se lo ponen muy difícil, incluso a sus propios fieles.
Venga, va, PoPulines, una pizca de sinceridad, que no cuesta tanto. Si lo demostráis cada vez con los hechos, ¿por qué no lo expresáis con palabras, también?: "Los del PP estamos orgullosos de seguir los pasos de Hitler, Mussolini i Franco, con el fin de devolverle a España la perdida gloria nacional e imponerle a todo Cristo la unidad, a imagen y semejanza de nuestro añorado Caudillo salvador. Al fin y al cabo, con Franco vivíamos mejor. ¡Arriba España!"
Sí hombre, claro, aplastando a aquellos que piensan diferente, ¡pues claro que podríais vivir bien! Pero.... ¿y el resto del pueblo? ¿Se lo pasaría tan PiPa como vosotros? ¿Me permitís efectuar una encuesta, una consulta o un referéndum para conocer la opinión de la gente? ¡Oh!, perdón, he pronunciado la palabra tabú: CONOCER....
Sueca, País Valencià, Marènia. 9-8-2014.
Joanjo Aguar Matoses.
(Traducido del original en catalán).
(Últimos retoques: 15-8-2014)
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Among all these stamped Windsors a German dictator is hiding out can you find the Ugly little Austrian nationalised as a German citizen? And if you find Adolf, can you find the lone Queen Victoria?
If you find that to easy then sort out the Edward VIII? I think there is two but there might be a Canadian Eddie 8 too, I can’t really remember :)
Peace and Noise!
/ MushroomBrain preferring powerless royals than self-made dictators
Chapter 10 -- "The Death Mist."
This action-packed one sheet has Ming's ships attacking and dropping gas bombs! Flash is grappling with Captain Torch, while Dale has wicked Sonja by the throat! The girls will pass out from the gas..."The Death Mist"..and Flash and Torch will topple off the roof...What will Happen?...Is Dale dead?...will Flash survive the fall?
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe is a bracing, dazzling movie serial, 12 chapters of nonstop action that are as entertaining today as they were in 1940. The movie's visual appeal is still startling, its action taking place in settings that mix 19th century European opulence with spaceships and other futuristic inventions. The cast -- including Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Frank Shannon, Charles B. Middleton, Anne Gwynne, Roland Drew, Carolyn Hughes, and Don Rowan -- were at the peak of their powers as performers. Yet even beyond these attributes, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe also offers a unique mix of mythic imagery and 1940 topicality. Each of the three Flash Gordon serials reflected elements of popular culture sensibility and contemporary history that were unique to the particular time in which it was made. The first, Flash Gordon (1936), depicted Emperor Ming as a Fu Manchu-type character, with a distinctly Oriental appearance, both personally and in the design and costuming of his court. The second, Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938), offered such conventions as the wisecracking reporter (Donald Kerr) and the presence of a Martian adventure at a time when the notion of possible life on the fourth planet was starting to be discussed widely (a period culminating with Orson Welles' infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast).
The third serial, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, reflected the world of 1939-1940; in place of the Oriental robes that he wore in the first serial, Emperor Ming (Charles B. Middleton) now wears a European-style uniform cut along military lines and he employs stormtrooper-type soldiers in his attempt to conquer Mongo. The various kingdoms of Mongo now seem like an array of Central European-type duchies and principalities, and Flash Gordon (Larry "Buster" Crabbe) is the bold, impetuous Earth man who arrives to help lead them in their struggle for freedom while protecting his home planet. The equating of Ming with Adolf Hitler should have been obvious, but just in case it was missed by anyone, the first chapter includes a pointed mention of Ming's concentration camps and his efforts to control the thoughts of his captive populations. The whole serial is an allegory about World War II, with Crabbe's Flash Gordon representing a kind of American Siegfried, arriving to face the would-be conqueror Ming, who now relies much more on science than the magic and mysticism of the earlier movies.
The serial also reflects a growth in the role of women in chapterplays of this type. Often presented as little more than a reason to put the hero in jeopardy, heroines in 1930s serials walked a tightrope between being necessary characters and plot impediments, especially in the eyes of the usual majority audience for serials: pre-adolescent boys. In the first Flash Gordon serial, Dale Arden (as portrayed by Jean Rogers) didn't have much more to do than scream and faint while looking pretty enough to convince us that Ming the Merciless would go to any lengths to possess her. Four years later, in Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe -- a serial that was aimed at a slightly broader audience than the usual chapterplay (it ran in major downtown theaters and was seen by some adults) -- and Dale (as portrayed by Carolyn Hughes) is shown piloting a spaceship in battle, quite capable of defending herself, and presenting a potential threat to Ming -- even as his prisoner. All of those elements, coupled with lush costuming and decor, in addition to the most glorious music score ever heard in a serial (largely derived from Franz Liszt's "Les Preludes"), resulted in an intensely complex and satisfying aesthetic experience, as well as a very diverting four hours of action.
Ironically, Crabbe himself never thought much of Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, mostly because he objected to the producers having "cheated" in chapters two and three, in which they used large sections of stock footage from the 1929 German film The White Hell of Pitz Palu (scenes that, strangely enough, very probably included long shots of Leni Riefenstahl as an actress). Even that material, however, helped to make those chapters memorable and compelling. The special effects were up to standards, with excellent spaceship sequences (the final chapter, featuring a ship-to-ship escape, is genuinely exciting to this day) and some very eerie sequences involving Ming's deadly robot army midway through the serial. There are certainly a few flaws -- including some very hasty dubbing that is embarrassing at times -- but those are isolated moments. Potential purchasers are advised, however, to be wary of unauthorized editions. The copyright on Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe lapsed in 1968, and since then it has come out through various pirate distributors in editions of widely varying quality. The version issued by Image Entertainment on laserdisc and DVD, licensed by the Hearst Corporation (which owns the underlying copyright on the Flash Gordon comic strip), is the best looking edition and the only fully legitimate release of this title. The movie was also re-edited into feature-length films -- including the title Purple Death From Outer Space -- that convey only a fraction of the majesty of the complete serial. The serial's title, by the way, is explained in the final shot when Ming the Merciless declares "I am the universe!" As Zarkov explains, having defeated Ming, Flash Gordon has, thus, conquered the universe.
Larry "Buster" Crabbe - Flash Gordon
Charles B. Middleton -Ming the Merciless
Frank Shannon - Dr. Zarkov
Carolyn Hughes -Dale Arden
Roland Drew - Prince Barin
Shirley Deane - Princess Aura
Anne Gwynne - Lady Sonja
Ben Taggart - Lupi
Don Rowan -Torch
Edgar Edwards - Turan
Harry C. Bradley - Keedish
Lee Powell - Roka
Michael Mark - Karm
Victor Zimmerman - Thong
William Royle - Capt. Suden
Chapter Titles:
Chapter 1 -- "The Purple Death."
Chapter 2 --”Freezing Torture”
Chapter 3 --”Walking Bombs”
Chapter 4 -- The Destroying Ray
Chapter 5 -- The Palace of Peril
Chapter 6 -- Flaming Death
Chapter 7 -- Land of the Dead
Chapter 8 -- The Fiery Abyss
Chapter 9 -- The Pool of Peril
Chapter10 -- The Death Mist
Chapter11 -- Stark Treachery
Chapter12 -- Doom of the Dictator
Amid the political chaos sweeping across the world in 1939, a new terror arises -- the Purple Death -- and people around the world succumb at random by the hundreds, then thousands, with the identifying symptom being a purple spot on the victim. The authorities are baffled as to the cause or the treatment, and panic is spreading. Dr. Alexis Zarkov (Frank Shannon) determines that the Purple Death is linked to extraterrestrial events. Along with Flash Gordon (Larry "Buster" Crabbe) and Dale Arden (Carolyn Hughes), Zarkov finds an alien spaceship, which they recognize as being from the planet Mongo, home of their old enemy, Ming the Merciless, spreading some sort of dust in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Flash, Dale, and Zarkov head for Mongo, where they discover that Emperor Ming (Charles B. Middleton), whom they believed had been killed at the end of their battle with him on Mars (told in Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars), is still alive. He is threatening not only to conquer all of Mongo, but is attacking Earth again, using a "Death Dust" spread by his spaceships that will eventually destroy everyone on Earth.
Flash, Dale, and Zarkov form an alliance with their old friend, Prince Barin (Roland Drew), the rightful ruler of Mongo, who with his wife, Princess Aura (Shirley Deane) -- Ming's own daughter -- rules the peaceful kingdom of Arboria, resisting Ming's military might with their small fleet of ships, the aid of neighboring free kingdoms, and the help of a tiny handful of officers within Ming's own palace who remain loyal to the prince. Their first task is to secure a neutralizing agent for the Death Dust, which exists in the frozen northern kingdom of Frigia, but before they can do that, they have to free the imprisoned Frigian military leader General Lupi (Ben Taggart), who has been captured by Ming. Flash rescues the general, who is about to be used as the subject of a scientific experiment, and secures the aid and gratitude of the Frigians. This barely slows Ming in his plans for conquest, however, and over the next 11 chapters, Flash Gordon and his friends and allies -- including Ronal (Donald Curtis), Roka (Lee Powell), and Captain Suden (William Royle) -- take their battle for the safety of the Earth and the freedom of Mongo to the far reaches of the planet. Battling Ming and his villainous henchmen -- including Captain Torch (Don Rowan) and Lady Sonja (Anne Gwynne) -- from Mongo's frozen northern wastes to its uncharted deserts, Flash and his allies outmaneuver and generally outfight and outwit Ming's larger, better equipped army and spaceship fleet, but they are nearly undone by the spies that Ming has placed in Barin's own household. The bravery of the Earth hero and his friends, and the patriotism and sacrifices of Mongo's people ultimately prove too much for the evil emperor, who finally faces impending destruction from one of his own fiendish inventions.
Considered by many to be the most elaborate and elegant of the three serials Universal Studios produced starring Buster Crabbe as space traveler Flash Gordon. Beginning with the release in 1936 of Flash Gordon, based on the comic strip created by Alex Raymond, Universal rose to the top of the serial market with this science fiction/adventure chapter play. They followed up with Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars in 1938 and finally, this chapter play, considered by many to be the best. Flash is now faced with ridding the world of a mysterious malady called the Purple Death which has inflicted Earth courtesy of Ming, the Merciless (Charles Middleton), evil ruler of the planet Mongo.
This serial was based on Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon comic strip continuity involving Prince Barin and his kingdom of Arboria. Much of the serial's action also takes place in the comic strip kingdom of Frigia. The movie serial characters of Queen Fria, Count Korro, Gen. Lupi and Capt. Sudin all originated in the strip.
King Features Syndicate released the 3 Flash Gordon serials as well as "Buck Rogers," "Red Barry", "Ace Drummond" and other comic strip cliffhangers to US TV in 1951. Because the television show Flash Gordon, starring Steve Holland as Flash, was in syndication in late 1953, the three Universal Pictures' Flash Gordon theatrical serials were retitled for TV broadcast. Flash Gordon became "Space Soldiers", Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars became "Space Soldiers' Trip to Mars", and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe became "Space Soldiers Conquer the Universe". To this day both the 3 original "Flash Gordon" serial titles and the 3 "Space Soldiers" titles are used.
In the final chapter before his demise, Ming is looking to escape. In the endings of most serial episodes the hero is is the one trying to escape (then thought to be killed - until the next week). This might suggest another sequel or fourth Flash Gordon serial. However, after 7 December 1941 and the attack on Pearl Harbor, just 3 years after Orson Welles' infamous 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast simulating an attack from from outer space, the production of "space travel" films were put on hold.
John Hamilton, who plays Flash's father Professor Gordon, is best known to 1950s TV fans as editor Perry White of Adventures of Superman.
Founded in 1996, Le Krewe d'Etat features 21 floats, including a special signature High Priest Float. Its floats adhere to a traditional style of design that impart Le Krewe d'Etat's satirical theme, which has been voted "Best of Carnival" by critics. The Captain and officers ride on horseback throughout the parade.
In the tradition of Carnival, secrecy is very important to Le Krewe d'Etat. The identity of the ruler - the Dictator - is never revealed to the public, and the theme is secret until parade day.
The krewe's signature throw is the blinking logo skull bead. Le Krewe d'Etat was the first krewe to throw a blinking bead. They also publish the D'Etat Gazette, a bulletin with pictures and descriptions of the floats that is available only at the parade. Members of the krewe dressed as walking skeletons hand out the papers and wooden doubloons at the parades.
This organization is formed by 415 male riders.
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Aux armes, citoyens! The Revolution is upon us once again as Le Krewe d’État proudly rolls out its annual procession of satire and sarcasm. Herewith, is our Bulletin to augment your enjoyment of our rolling tableau of fools and their foibles.
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The Dictator NYC @Sala El Sol, Madrid.
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Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi (معمر القذافي)
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Gaddafi was killed October 20, 2011.
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Dictator is almost finished in centers and collections are around 21 crores.Movie can be termed as average but producers lost money as they budget is above 30+ crores.Hope balakrishna’s 100th film will be a biggest hit in his career
This work of art combines two words: «dictatorship» and «monster». The letters of the word «monster» are completely covered with dictators names.Technique: paper, cardboard. Size: 63 x 51 cm.
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Dictatorship
A poem by Franz L Kessler
Laws are made by the boss
To cater for the needs of a palace’s day
Cemented and fully enforced by those
With hands to carry a gun
Lead drapes the future
And even the past
Bleak yesterday precedes
An even bleaker today
Where joy has dried up
Like sprinkles in hot desert sand
Unknown to the lucky few it’s called:
Planet Earth’s most common reality
When hope is lost – no choice
It’s bitterness that abounds
Breeding aggression
Despair and Suicide
The destitute follow those
Who promise a drink of relief
Even so its source stems
From a poisoned heart
My wish is that one day
All egoism will die
Like a rotting tree is struck
By a blazing lightning
( Poem's source : www.authorsden.com )
As Lybia is consumed by a struggle for freedom, Muammar Gaddafi (معمر القذافي) has become one of the Walking Dead, a Zombie Dictator lurching toward his inevitable disintegration.
Gaddafi was killed October 20, 2011.
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A soldier is carried aloft by the jubilant crowd near the centre of Tahrir Square a few minutes after Mubarak announced his resignation - 11 February 2011.
Never before and possibly never again would the Egyptian military be quite so popular and as almost universally admired as it was at this moment . Rightly or wrongly the army was seen by the people as the saviour of the revolution.
Most analysts were more cynical and saw the military's decision to "side with the revolution" as a result not of sympathy for the protesters' demands but out of realization that this would be the best way to protect its' own privileged political and military influence.
Just a month later when soldiers forcibly cleared Tahrir Square of demonstrators a number of the women arrested were subjected to electric shocks, strip searches and forced virginity tests.
Views of the army among a few of the revolutionaries then began to change although the army as an institution still remained in high esteem among the general population even when later news also leaked out regarding the disappearances of civilians detained at army road block south of Cairo during the 18 day uprising and of others who had been detained near Tahrir Square and elsewhere and subsequently died while in military custody.
Description: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain receives the red carpet treatment in Rome from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
Date: January 1939
Our Catalogue Reference: CO 1069/856
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In the evolving world we live in, it's no longer fashionable to be a bad dictator.
It's very important to be able to be a good dictator to ensure a prosperous healthy future.
British postcard by Real Photograph, London in the Film Partners series, no. P 166. Photo: Toeplitz. Madeleine Carroll and Clive Brook in The Dictator (Victor Saville, 1935).
British actress Madeleine Carroll (1906–1987) was a blonde beauty of a ladylike demeanour. The first of Alfred Hitchcock's ‘ice-cool blondes’ was immensely popular in the 1930s and 1940s, and was nicknamed 'The Queen of British Cinema'.
English film and stage actor Clive Brook (1887-1974) worked first in British films and then in Hollywood. The suave, handsome, distinguished leading man is best remembered as Marlene Dietrich’s love interest in Shanghai Express (1932).
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Named after a mighty dictator, this castle had her glory days a long time back. What's left is an empty castle, in such a bad shape that i guess it won't take long before the roof will collapse.
Visited this location in March 2014
Corazon Aquino, Philippines president, dead at 76 Reuters – Former Philippine President Ex-Philippines leader Corazon Aquino dies at 76
MANILA, Philippines – Former President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator with a "people power" revolt and then sustained democracy by fighting off seven coup attempts in six years, died on Saturday, her son said. She was 76.
The uprising she led in 1986 ended the repressive 20-year regime of Ferdinand Marcos and inspired nonviolent protests across the globe, including those that ended Communist rule in eastern Europe.
But she struggled in office to meet high public expectations. Her land redistribution program fell short of ending economic domination by the landed elite, including her own family. Her leadership, especially in social and economic reform, was often indecisive, leaving many of her closest allies disillusioned by the end of her term.
Still, the bespectacled, smiling woman in her trademark yellow dress remained beloved in the Philippines, where she was affectionately referred to as "Tita (Auntie) Cory."
"She was headstrong and single-minded in one goal, and that was to remove all vestiges of an entrenched dictatorship," Raul C. Pangalangan, former dean of the Law School at the University of the Philippines, said earlier this month. "We all owe her in a big way."
Her son, Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, said his mother died at 3:18 a.m. Saturday (1918 GMT Friday).
Aquino was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer last year and confined to a Manila hospital for more than a month. Her son said the cancer had spread to other organs and she was too weak to continue her chemotherapy.
Supporters have been holding daily prayers for Aquino in churches in Manila and throughout the country for a month. Masses were scheduled for later Saturday, and yellow ribbons were tied on trees around her neighborhood in Quezon city.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who is on an official visit to the United States, said in a statement that "the entire nation is mourning" Aquino's demise. Arroyo declared a period of national mourning and announced a state funeral would be held for the late president.
TV stations on Saturday were running footage of Aquino's years together with prayers while her former aides and supporters offered condolences.
"Today our country has lost a mother," said former President Joseph Estrada, calling Aquino "a woman of both strength and graciousness."
Even the exiled Communist Party founder Jose Maria Sison, whom Aquino freed from jail in 1986, paid tribute from the Netherlands.
Aquino's unlikely rise began in 1983 when her husband, opposition leader Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., was assassinated on the tarmac of Manila's international airport as he returned from exile in the United States to challenge Marcos, his longtime adversary.
The killing enraged many Filipinos and unleashed a broad-based opposition movement atat thrust Aquino into the role of national leader.
"I don't know anything about the presidency," she declared in 1985, a year before she agreed to run against Marcos, uniting the fractious opposition, the business community, and later the armed forces to drive the dictator out.
Maria Corazon Cojuangco was born on Jan. 25, 1933, into a wealthy, politically powerful family in Paniqui, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of Manila.
She attended private school in Manila and earned a degree in French from the College of Mount St. Vincent in New York. In 1954 she married Ninoy Aquino, the fiercely ambitious scion of another political family. He rose from provincial governor to senator and finally opposition leader.
Marcos, elected president in 1965, declared martial law in 1972 to avoid term limits. He abolished the Congress and jailed Aquino's husband and thousands of opponents, journalists and activists without charges. Aquino became her husband's political stand-in, confidant, message carrier and spokeswoman.
A military tribunal sentenced her husband to death for alleged links to communist rebels but, under pressure from U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Marcos allowed him to leave in May 1980 for heart surgery in the U.S.
It was the start of a three-year exile. With her husband at Harvard University holding court with fellow exiles, academics, journalists and visitors from Manila, Aquino was the quiet homemaker, raising their five children and serving tea. Away from the hurly-burly of Philippine politics, she described the period as the best of their marriage.
The halcyon days ended when her husband decided to return to regroup the opposition. While she and the children remained in Boston, he flew to Manila, where he was shot as he descended the stairs from the plane.
The government blamed a suspected communist rebel, but subsequent investigations pointed to a soldier who was escorting him from the plane on Aug. 21, 1983.
Aquino heard of the assassination in a phone call from a Japanese journalist. She recalled gathering the children and, as a deeply religious woman, praying for strength.
"During Ninoy's incarceration and before my presidency, I used to ask why it had always to be us to make the sacrifice," she said in a 2007 interview with The Philippine Star newspaper. "And then, when Ninoy died, I would say, 'Why does it have to be me now?' It seemed like we were always the sacrificial lamb."
She returned to the Philippines three days later. One week after that, she led the largest funeral procession Manila had seen. Crowd estimates ranged as high as 2 million.
With public opposition mounting against Marcos, he stunned the nation in November 1985 by calling a snap election in a bid to shore up his mandate. The opposition, including then Manila Archbishop Cardinal Jaime L. Sin, urged Aquino to run.
After a fierce campaign, the vote was held on Feb. 7, 1986. The National Assembly declared Marcos the winner, but journalists, foreign observers and church leaders alleged massive fraud.
With the result in dispute, a group of military officers mutinied against Marcos on Feb. 22 and holed up with a small force in a military camp in Manila.
Over the following three days, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos responded to a call by the Roman Catholic Church to jam the broad highway in front of the camp to prevent an attack by Marcos forces.
On the third day, against the advice of her security detail, Aquino appeared at the rally alongside the mutineers, led by Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, the military vice chief of staff and Marcos' cousin.
From a makeshift platform, she declared: "For the first time in the history of the world, a civilian population has been called to defend the military."
The military chiefs pledged their loyalty to Aquino and charged that Marcos had won the election by fraud.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan, a longtime supporter of Marcos, called on him to resign. "Attempts to prolong the life of the present regime by violence are futile," the White House said. American officials offered to fly Marcos out of the Philippines.
On Feb. 25, Marcos and his family went to the U.S.-run Clark Air Base outside Manila and flew to Hawaii, where he died three years later.
The same day, Aquino was sworn in as the Philippines' first female leader.
Over time, the euphoria fizzled as the public became impatient and Aquino more defensive as she struggled to navigate treacherous political waters and build alliances to push her agenda.
"People used to compare me to the ideal president, but he doesn't exist and never existed. He has never lived," she said in the 2007 Philippine Star interview.
The right attacked her for making overtures to communist rebels and the left, for protecting the interests of wealthy landowners.
Aquino signed an agrarian reform bill that virtually exempted large plantations like her family's sugar plantation from being distributed to landless farmers.
When farmers protested outside the Malacanang Presidential Palace on Jan. 22, 1987, troops opened fire, killing 13 and wounding 100.
The bloodshed scuttled talks with communist rebels, who had galvanized opposition to Marcos but weren't satisfied with Aquino either.
As recently as 2004, at least seven workers were killed in clashes with police and soldiers at the family's plantation, Hacienda Luisita, over its refusal to distribute its land.
Aquino also attempted to negotiate with Muslim separatists in the southern Philippines, but made little progress.
Behind the public image of the frail, vulnerable widow, Aquino was an iron-willed woman who dismissed criticism as the carping of jealous rivals. She knew she had to act tough to earn respect in the Philippines' macho culture.
"When I am just with a few close friends, I tell them, 'OK, you don't like me? Look at the alternatives,' and that shuts them up," she told America's NBC television in a 1987 interview.
Her term was punctuated by repeated coup attempts — most staged by the same clique of officers who had risen up against Marcos and felt they had been denied their fair share of power. The most serious attempt came in December 1989 when only a flyover by U.S. jets prevented mutinous troops from toppling her.
Leery of damaging relations with the United States, Aquino tried in vain to block a historic Senate vote to force the U.S. out of its two major bases in the Philippines.
In the end, the U.S. Air Force pulled out of Clark Air Base in 1991 after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo forced its evacuation and left it heavily damaged. The last American vessel left Subic Bay Naval Base in November 1992.
After stepping down in 1992, Aquino remained active in social and political causes.
Until diagnosed with colon cancer in March 2008, she joined rallies calling for the resignation of President Arroyo over allegations of vote-rigging and corruption.
She kept her distance from another famous widow, flamboyant former first lady Imelda Marcos, who was allowed to return to the Philippines in 1991.
Marcos has called Aquino a usurper and dictator, though she later led prayers for Aquino in July 2009 when the latter was hospitalized. The two never made peace.