Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall Briton, whose air of habitual command betrayed his lineage, arrived last week at Bombay, India. Some weeks before he had taken leave of the King-Emperor at London, had left that monarch to endure his well known bronchial affliction amid the damp of England. At Bombay, the arriving Briton took the oath of allegiance as Viceroy of India, then he prepared to whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name...
...once a favorite of the Emperor Nicholas and went over to the Reds only when his army was disintegrating about him because of bolshevist propaganda. One of his sons died in the Red Army and another in the White Army which attempted to overthrow the Soviet regime. At the time of his death he was drawing a pension of $150 (about 29 chervonetz) a month from the Soviets...
...which have been going on for two or three years under the direction of the Italian government. Leptis Magna is an ancient city of Africa situated a few miles inland on the coast of Tripoli. The city as it was in its glory, was largely the creation of the Emperor Septimius Magnus, who was born there and flourished about the year 200 A. D. It was the desire of the Emperor to create this African city a second Rome, and therefore laid it out and built it up with all the magnificence characteristic of the late Empire. In the sixth...
...present the largest of the monasteries is one of Russian monks numbering about 1000 although at one time, it numbered some 4000. The usual number, however, is about 125. The oldest of the monasteries goes back to the tenth century and has in its treasury the crown of the Emperor Nicephorus Phocas...
...fairy opera in one act and three scenes, by Igor Stravinsky, followed La Vida Breve, made two U. S. premieres in a single afternoon at the Metropolitan. The story was adapted from the tale of Hans Andersen?a fisherman paddling his boat, drawing his nets, hears the nightingale; the Emperor hears it, so does his Bonze, so does his cook, who finally persuades it to come and live at court. Japanese ambassadors come bringing the Chinese Emperor a mechanical nightingale, and the stupid, stupid courtiers, forgetting their own perfect nightingale, applaud the artificial one, and the real bird flies away...