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...talk about a man who knew what he wanted out of life. He also knew how to get it: after the tribal leader known as Temujen was crowned in A.D. 1206 as the Mongols' Genghis Khan -- "emperor of all emperors" -- he waged nearly continuous wars of conquest against his neighbors. By his death in 1227, Genghis Khan ruled most of the lands between the Sea of Japan and the Caspian Sea, an empire that encompassed two-thirds of the known world and far eclipsed the celebrated realms of Alexander the Great. To those who were overrun by the Khan...
...fate than it got, and Keanu Reeves was passable, though much better than when he played one of the world's most important religious figures in Little Buddha, Bernardo Bertolucci's failed attempt to recapture the pomp and pageantry that won him a Best Picture Oscar for The Last Emperor...
...year 1414 Zheng He, Grand Eunuch of the Three Treasures, loaded some exotic creatures onto his junk and headed back to China from the coast of East Africa. One, the long-necked K'i-lin, astounded Emperor Yu and his court. It was unlike anything they had ever seen, with its "luminous spots like a red cloud or purple mist." The K'i-lin was poked, prodded, observed from every angle, much commented upon but little understood...
...shocked Japan learned that its imperial family has harbored a high-level World War II dissenter for 50 years. In an interview published today, Prince Mikasa, the 78-year-old brother of the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito, called Japan's actions in World War II "aggression" and said his family behaved brutally.The prince also revealed that a team from the United Nations' forerunner, the League of Nations, was served fruit laced with cholera germs when it came to investigate Japan's invasion of China in the late '30s. The Yomiuri, Japan's largest newspaper, conducted the interview after the recent...
Byrne has directed a film (True Stories), written music for dance (Twyla Tharp's The Catherine Wheel), won an Oscar for a movie sound track (Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor) and appeared on the cover of TIME. After the breakup of Talking Heads in 1988, he immersed himself in the sensuality of tropical salsa, releasing two solo albums that hitched his quirky vision to the locomotion of the mambo...