Word: emperor
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...tech. Visually, they are little more than still pictures strung together in a technique known, rather generously, as dissolve animation. Sales have been moderate (cost: $9.95 or $14.95 a tape), but titles are multiplying rapidly. Following its initial series of 18 storybook classics (Thumbelina, read by Kelly McGillis; The Emperor's New Clothes, with John Gielgud), the company has just launched a new collection of folktales from around the world, featuring stars like Denzel Washington and Max von Sydow. Also in the works: legendary American tales and Bible stories. The videos are being run on the Showtime cable network...
...patron saint's name to underscore his cosmopolitan ambitions, Peter built the elegant port as a window to the West, intending to yank his fusty country toward the future. When the Russians went to war against Germany in 1914, the city's Teutonic appellation suddenly became politically incorrect. Emperor Nicholas II's solution was to Russify the name, making it Petrograd. So it remained until 1924, when Lenin died, prompting the Bolshevik government to rechristen the city in his honor. It was there, after all, that worker revolts paved the way for the communist uprising...
...Italian colony in 1890, Eritrea expected nationhood after World War II but was instead federated with Ethiopia in 1952 at the recommendation of the United Nations. In 1962 the Eritrean parliament voted for full unification amid reports of bribery and intimidation of its members by the government of Emperor Haile Selassie...
...former Italian colony--bordered by Ethopia, the Sudan, and the Red Sea--was annexed by Ethopian Emperor Haile Selassie...
Meet Donald Trump's bankers. Like the characters in the fairy tale The Emperor's New Clothes, a gaggle of major financial institutions has finally been forced to admit, after lending Trump billions of dollars, that there's a lot less to the emperor -- or at least his empire -- than the banks had believed. Not quite nine months after bailing out Trump with a rescue package that gave him $65 million in new loans and eased credit terms on his bank debt, Trump's bankers last week stopped the game. Already more than $3.8 billion in the hole and sliding...