Word: empereur
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...doubt, Goddio's most glamorous work has been mapping and excavating the Royal Quarters of Alexandria. He identified the probable site of Cleopatra's palace on the island of Antirrhodos, which featured an esplanade lined with statues and granite columns. At about the same time, French archaeologist Jean-Yves Empereur, working a concession in Alexandria's eastern harbor, discovered the likely remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Critics of Goddio's work say he has stretched himself too thin, dashing from one project to another more out of love for adventure...
...Winners NOR MALENA HASSAN Malaysian sets record by spending a month in a cage with more than 2,000 scorpions, handily beating the old mark of zero days JEAN-YVES EMPEREUR Archaeologist wins apology from Tomb Raider gamemaker for using his name. This puts the kibosh on our new PC game: Super Jean-Yves EUROPEAN VERMIN New study says that an Ebola-like virus, not rats, caused the Black Plague. Rats, it turns out, were actually responsible for the Renaissance Losers WILT CHAMBERLAIN Late basketball star's $4.3 million "luxury love nest," including water-bed floor, still unsold. Come...
...only Emperor since the deposition and death of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. Sweltering in the 100° heat and 90% humidity, the guests, in morning coats and Parisian gowns, struggled to attention as a voice boomed out over the loudspeaker: "Sa Majesté Impériale, I'Empereur Bokassa Premier...
...winning horse"-ITT was doing poorly in its U.S.-based manufacturing operations-Geneen decided to ride it especially hard, fused it under a single headquarters located in Brussels. To house the newly created ITT-Europe, a handsome building went up on Brussels' Boulevard de l'Empereur-smack in between the Belgian Socialist Party headquarters and the national unemployment office...
...King of Holland; Brother Joseph became King of Naples; Brother Jérôme became King of Westphalia; Sisters Elisa, Caroline and Pauline received various duchies in Italy; and Napoleon's widowed mother became Son Altesse Impériale Madame la Mère de l'Empereur. Napoleon gave them all immense allowances (which they all shrewdly kited into fortunes-Elisa by reopening the marble quarries at Carrara and flooding Europe with marble busts of the Emperor...