Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince. Michi-No-Miyo Hirohito, destined to be the 124th Emperor, has ruled Japan since November, 1921, when his father relinquished power because of illness verging on insanity. He is nearly 23, is famous for his tour of Europe, is considered "democratic," is well educated, small...
...history of the country started in 1713, when the Liechtenstein family bought the fiefs of Schellenburg and Vaduz from the impecunious Graf von Hohenems, although the lordship was bought in 1699. In 1719, Emperor Karl VI of the Holy Roman Empire raised these territories to a Principality under the name of Liechtenstein. It remained a part of the Empire until 1806, when for nine years it was a Sovereign State in the Rhine Confederation. From 1815 to 1866 it was a part of the German Confederation, but since the last date it has been a Sovereign State...
...Hussein's escort repelled the attackers. The trouble between King Hussein and the Emir of Riyadh is over the demarcation of the eastern boundary of Hedjas, the alleged aspiration of King Hussein to the Caliphate and the mooted creation of a Pan-Arab Confederation with King Hussein as Emperor...
Though I am not imperial, and Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry...
...Living Mask. Another Pirandello play has come to baffle wit and start psychopathic conversation. The play was originally named Henry IV, because the hero?an embittered contemporary Italian?is discovered at a masquerade carnival in the guise of Emperor Henry IV (the one who went to Canossa barefoot in the snow to ask the Pope's pardon). The masquerading Italian is pitched off his horse onto a stone, and when he wakes up believes himself to be the actual Henry...