Word: empress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will have by her all through her life to protect her from harm. Because she is a girl, he laid beside the dagger a tiny purple hakama, or ceremonial skirt. Soon came government officials led by bushy-browed Prime Minister Yugo Hamaguchi to pay their respects to the Empress. Shinto priests held thanksgiving services at three shrines in the palace: the Kashikodokoro, shrine of the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess, Japan's holiest relic; the Ancestor's shrine, temple of all the ancestors of the Imperial family, and the Shinden, dedicated to all the "80 myriad" gods...
...full force of the storm broke against the palace walls, lights suddenly appeared. A uniformed aid scurried from a side door across a sanded driveway to a temporary booth where reporters waited. Excited watchers whispered to each other that it had come. Another child was born to the Empress Nagako. Would it be a boy? Would there finally be a direct heir to the throne of Japan? On the roof of the Tokyo fire house the siren hooted mournfully, rose to a high electric scream. Tokyo waited breathless. Then came another hoot, longer, more mournful. Sadly Tokyo realized that...
Praised by Queen-Empress Mary a. "Most comfortable and clever!" was the Gypsy Moth's upholstery of bright scarlet leather, air-inflated. Painted a vivid red and blue, the plane is lettered on each side of the fuselage H. R. H. the Prince of Wales...
...violet. Ye-Ho-No-La's problem was to convert the imperial energy to her own use, to induce the Emperor to condescend enough to let her bear him an heir. A son she bore and not only covered herself with glory but became as well the famed Dowager Empress of China (1835-1908). She commanded China's 500 millions, decapitated numerous missionaries, took her fun where she found it, including the Yong-Lou of her childhood...
...intimate biographer there is an embarrassment of riches in Francis Joseph's circle?the unhappy Empress, proud and beautiful, stabbed by an anarchist; Archduke Max, strangely Emperor of Mexico; Archduke John Salvator who disappeared into the Pacific; the Crown Prince Rudolf mysteriously and horribly a suicide; and finally the next heir apparent, Franz Ferdinand, fatefully killed at Serajevo. But these dramatics are insignificant facts in Author Redlich's account of the final struggle between time-honored legitimacy and modern nationalism?Francis Joseph granting his people universal suffrage and a parliament, and then stultifying the gesture by reserving his absolute power...