Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week a military airplane from Algiers quietly set down on Corsica, the small Mediterranean island from which Napoleon Bonaparte sallied forth to win an emperor's crown. Out of the plane stepped Corsican-born Pascal Arrighi, a French National Assembly Deputy and passionate adherent of the two-week-old Algerian insurrection. Barely 13 hours later, 36-year-old Pascal Arrighi, at the head of 250 Corsica-based paratroopers and a mob of 10,000, seized control of the island capital of Ajaccio. From the balcony of the Ajaccio Prefectural Headquarters a local contractor announced, amid...
...agree to help him set up a coalition government to rule until the scheduled general election that he hopes to hold in 1959. But it is a sign of Nepal's condition that in spite of himself, Mahendra, King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor, continues to govern by palace rule as Prime Minister, Cabinet and Parliament rolled into...
Anthony Quinn, complete with Mongolian mustache and a distempered look, stars as the barbarian leader finally turned from the portals of Rome by the Pope and a collection of cross-bearing Christians Bovine Sophia Loren (disgruntled sister of the play-pen emperor) bounces by in a chariot--with that watermelon corpulence which, in this sublimating age, passes for beauty at the box office...
...gave force to the divinely inspired canons for human conduct of Moses; it gave force to the rule of the Hindu Manu, the Babylonian Hammurabi, the Roman Numa and the Greek Lycurgus; it gave force to the law as a human science in the Digest of Rome's Emperor Justinian; it gave force to the common law of England, based on principle, shaped by experience, controlled by reason...
...play the part of mistress-adviser to him. But the Consul already had his eye on sylphish Juliette Récamier, wife of a Paris banker, had sent Minister Joseph Fouché to whisper in her ear: "The First Consul finds you charming." When, after Napoleon had become Emperor, Mme. Récamier still shied away, Bonaparte engraved her name forever in his so-called Great Book of Suspects. Just to top off the awful insult, Mme. Récamier became the bosom friend of the detested Mme. de Staël, thus forming an "alliance of two weak creatures...