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...bodies to form a water clock in the Summer Palace, the home of the royal family. The clock, which was designed so each head would spout water for two hours each day and all would spray in unison at noon, was said to be a favorite of the Qianlong emperor...
...Nicolas Sarkozy - Napoleon III or Mick Jagger? "Sarko," the rock star, struts his stuff with gold chain and bared chest, hanging out with the high and mighty. The third Napoleon, French Emperor from 1852 to 1870, came to power in a putsch, installing an authoritarian monarchy...
...Mulugeta says it's not that he's a stranger to suffering himself. He is a distant relation of the former emperor Haile Selassie, who ruled Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 - with a five-year break from 1936 to 1941 when Italy occupied the country. When the Derg military regime deposed Selassie, Mulugeta's father was executed and Mulugeta himself spent nine years in jail before being released to 20 years of exile in London. But he is convinced the new millennium will restore Ethiopia and the day will soon arrive when Ethiopians no longer need outside assistance. "Nobody denies...
...Back in July 1918, Lenin feared that the deposed Emperor Nicholas would re-emerge as a rallying symbol for anti-Bolshevik forces and secretly ordered the entire family executed. The Emperor, the Empresses Alexandra, Alexei and his four sisters, lovingly called "OTMA" by the family - Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia - all were brutally shot in the basement of the Ipatyev House in Yekaterinburg, where they were kept in exile. The bodies were thought to be covered in sulphuric acid and buried in secret graves nearby. They were exhumed in 1991, but two were missing - the boy and one of the girls...
...might just come in handy in the presidential election year -this time, to offset leftist moods growing in this oil-rich country that sells gasoline to its impoverished citizens at prices higher than those in the U.S. However, Kremlin PR men may miscalculate any new frenzy about Nicholas. The Emperor is seen as the weak Tsar, whose failures helped bring about both the terrorist revolution and the death of his innocent family. Using this card might prove as hard as proving the authenticity of those newly found remains...