Revolutions of 1848 immigration, especially from Germany. This, in turn, fuelled the nativist "Know Nothing" movement in the years preceding the American Civil War. The "Know Nothings" were opposed to Catholic immigration, especially immigration of German and Irish Catholics, and held Pope Pius IX responsible for the 1848 revolutions' failure. 1848 in Canada saw the establishment of responsible government in Nova Scotia and The Canadas, the first such governments in the British Empire outside of Great Britain itself. John Ralston Saul has argued that this development is tied to the revolutions in Europe, but described the Canadian approach to the revolutionary year of
Year of the Phoenix "Year of the Phoenix" in 1987 and 1998, and then the company largely shut down. Year of the Phoenix Year of the Phoenix is a role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1986. "Year of the Phoenix" is a near-future science-fiction system in which the players' "Training Manual" (48 pages) prepares them to be soldiers, members of the United States Space Command – but from the beginning they are transported into the future of 2197, where the Russians occupy North America and are opposed by only a few small bands of freedom fighters. The "Adventure Guide" (80 pages), the