Word: emperors
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Beethoven’s foremost pupil and patron at this time was Archduke Rudolph, the brother of the reigning Emperor of Austria. The Archduke, who had commissioned most of Beethoven’s compositions, was elevated to the position of Archbishop of Olmutz in Moravia on June...
...exactly, are they visiting? More than 90 years after Machu Picchu first landed on the scientific map, modern archaeologists are making a persuasive case that it wasn't a spiritual center at all. Machu Picchu, it turns out, may have been nothing more than a mountain retreat for the Emperor Pachacuti and his royal court, sort of a 15th century Camp David. "It was just a country palace where they'd go to get away from the capital, Cuzco," says Yale archaeologist Richard Burger. "It was only a three-day walk away...
...what about all those temples Bingham discovered? "The emperor was considered descended from the sun, so there would have to be a religious component," Burger says with a shrug. "But the Incas probably spent just as much time hunting or drinking corn beer on the plaza...
...planned to devote its flagship satellite channel to movies?no tired epics on the revolution, just blockbusters. But that would have meant competing with the central government's own movie channel, so Beijing barred the change. Hunan then planned to produce a drama about the machinations of a Manchu Emperor's court. Central television, which was planning a similar series, red-lighted that, as well. A 60 Minutes-style program on corruption? With ongoing changes in the Communist Party leadership, that topic was deemed too explosive. "The whole industry is under political control," laments a Hunan Media Group official. "That...