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EXPECTING. PRINCESS MASAKO, 37, and PRINCE NARUHITO, 41, Japan's childless Crown couple;in Tokyo. The baby, who could be the Chrysanthemum Throne's 126th Emperor, is due inSeptember. Despite the fact Masako's 1999 miscarriage was blamed on the media frenzy that surrounded that pregnancy, more than 100 journalists flocked to her parents' home last week. Pundits predict a nationwide baby boom. PLEADED INNOCENT. DRAGAN OBRENOVIC, 38, to genocide charges stemming from his role in the 1995 Srebrenicamassacre of 7,500 Bosnian Muslims; in The Hague. According to his indictment Obrenovic carried out the orders ofGeneral Radislav Krstic...
...morning coats, ball gowns and top hats. Courtiers and other grandees adopted European-style aristocratic titles. Rococo, neo-Renaissance and neoclassicist buildings were erected. Concerts of European classical music were performed. A Prussian-style constitution was promulgated, a British-style navy built, a French-style bureaucracy developed and the Emperor, whose forebears had dedicated themselves to culture and ritual in the palatial seclusion of Kyoto, was boosted as a kind of Wilhelmine military monarch...
...guess that the chiaroscurist contrast of beatific cover (an image of a pretty park with some distant peoploids in a pool) and judgmental album title means that Couch intend to say something while not actually saying anything (like Godspeed You Black Emperor!, but with less scrutable liner notes). What it is, though, I don’t know, and titles like “12 is only 4” (“12 sind nur 4”) and “Colour” (“Farbe”) don’t help. What?...
...guess that the chiaroscurist contrast of beatific cover (an image of a pretty park with some distant peoploids in a pool) and judgmental album title means that Couch intend to say something while not actually saying anything (like Godspeed You Black Emperor!, but with less scrutable liner notes). What it is, though, I don’t know, and titles like “12 is only 4” (“12 sind nur 4”) and “Colour” (“Farbe”) don’t help. What?...
...succeeding Babylonia, Persia, Greece and the Jews themselves. Herod, who hailed from the neighboring province of Idumea (which included part of today's West Bank), won and maintained his position as the empire's proxy King of the Jews by allying himself successively with Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and Emperor Augustus, a dance involving very tricky pirouettes...