Word: emperors
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...take imprints of soft tissues and delicate structures, so there's no way of knowing whether Mei long had feathers. But other strata of the Liaoning fossil beds are much finer grained. That's where paleontologists found the feathered tyrannosaur, which Xu and Norell named Dilong paradoxus ("surprising emperor dragon"). It's one of the oldest known tyrannosaurs, and one of the emu-size specimens has unmistakable traces of primitive feathers on its tail and jaw. Those filaments, which are about three-quarters of an inch long and branched like modern feathers, are the first direct evidence that tyrannosaurs sported...
...education and health are very, very poor. It's like the big gap in China proper between rich and poor. So the whole picture, it almost looks hopeless. When the 13th Dalai Lama visited China in the early 20th century, there was a large Manchurian community?even the Emperor was Manchurian. Almost exactly 50 years later when I visited, the Manchurian community was no longer there. It was completely assimilated. That danger is very alive [in Tibet, too]. So that's why the Tibetan picture is almost hopeless. That's why we are trying to gain meaningful autonomy...
...gates was drawn from a dozen nations and was over a hundred thousand men strong. A rag-tag assortment of Venetians, Genoese, and Greeks, numbering barely seven thousand, defended the city against this horde, fighting bravely to thwart an outcome they knew to be inevitable. The last Christian Emperor died fighting, casting himself headlong into the oncoming enemy, a death that allowed the Byzantine empire to pass with an honor not usually associated with the end of a civilization. Reading accounts of the terrific battle waged on the triple wall of Theodosius, one cannot help but think that they must...
Cosmetics Emperor William Lauder...
...adroit with a saber as with a brush; and Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), Broken Sword's soul mate. Flying Snow has a side skirmish with Moon (Zhang Ziyi), Broken Sword's smitten apprentice. Loyalties are tested, alliances made and sundered. Death is the price for betrayal--of the Emperor or the heart...