Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overran six district capitals, three in the highland region, two in Military Region I and one in Military Region III, before zeroing in on their primary target: Ban Me Thuot, a sleepy Montagnard city of 80,000 and the capital of Darlac province, where in a quieter era the Emperor Bao Dai used to hunt for tiger...
...crystal Baccarat table was designed for a 19th century Indian maharajah; the gilded piano was once played by Chopin. But the bearskin rugs, emperor-size bed and rhinestone-studded recreation room could belong only to Liberace, 55. Now music's oldest glitter rocker has opened his rococo Hollywood Hills mansion, complete with toothy portraits of the maestro himself, to public tours at $5.90 a pop. His share of the profits, says Lee, will help support aspiring artists like Protégé Vince Cardell, 35. Thirty-two guides have been trained by Liberace, and four gold-jacketed salesgirls staff...
Approximately 65 to 70 per cent of the 49 stolen objects have been recovered. Roscoe said yesterday including a seventh-century Chinese glazed pottery horse valued at $150,000. The 30-pound, 23-inch-high horse was excavated from the grave of a Tsang emperor...
...holy water, he was sprinkled with clarified butter, milk, curd and honey by representatives of the four traditional Hindu castes: a Brahman, a warrior, a merchant and an Untouchable. Only then was Birendra-also known as the King of Kings, the Five Times Godly, the Valorous Warrior, the Divine Emperor and the reincarnation of Vishnu, god of preservation-ready to be crowned...
...fighting in Eritrea were not crisis enough, the military government in Addis Ababa-whose front man is Brigadier General Teferi Benti-also had to contend with a series of royalist revolts that stemmed from its overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie last September...