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...losses and sold the territory to the U.S. for the bargain price of $15 million. By 1861, however, Napoléon's nephew Napoléon III was ready to try another New World power play, sending an army to Mexico to collect debts and later installing an Austrian archduke as emperor. The U.S., distracted by the Civil War, did nothing at first. But in 1866 it demanded that the French withdraw and offered moral and diplomatic support when the Mexicans overthrew the imperial puppet regime soon thereafter...
...Perfect Revolutionary, Gao takes an almost psychoanalytical approach to describing a relationship that, more than any other, shaped China's modern history. Zhou, though never personally friendly with Mao, regarded him as an imperial figure. Zhou's guiding philosophy might have been taken from the Confucian Analects: "If the emperor asks you to die, you should die." And, indeed, Mao apparently asked no less. Gao confirms an assertion made in Mao: The Unknown Story, the 2005 biography by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, that Mao purposefully denied Zhou medical care for the cancer that ultimately killed him. Gao even suggests...
...long as I can remember, the imperial family's been like one big ball of stress.' PRINCE TOMOHITO, cousin of Japan's Emperor Akihito, attributing his battle with alcoholism to the pressures of belonging to the royal family...
PRINCE TOMOHITO, cousin of Japan's Emperor Akihito, attributing his battle with alcoholism to the pressures of belonging to the royal family...
Hair is, quite literally, political cover. The emperor may have no clothes, but he damn sure better have a comb. Charles the Bald, the 17 century King of France and Holy Roman Emperor, was not bald but fully maned, to judge by the portraits and coins of the day. The nickname was evidently ironic, the way 300-lb. members of Hells Angels frequently answer to "Tiny...