Word: eunuch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...9/11 photos in campaign fund raising. Hey, the "Bush Cowering in Air Force One Toilet" shot should be popular PRINCESS METTE-MARIT Norwegian cancels tour after nasty sunburn. What we shouldn't overlook is how hard this woman worked to get a sunburn in Scandinavia JOHN WAYNE BOBBITT Ex-eunuch dropped from Celebrity Boxing after assault arrest. Smart move, Bobbitt would totally besmirch the show's pristine reputation...
...juiciness of these revelations at first obscured how neatly they were tied up in a pleasing tabloid morality tale: prodigal son returns home. Since Diana's death, when Charles was widely reviled as a clueless emotional eunuch, he has doggedly worked to restore his reputation--which depends crucially on being seen as a good father. Even his determined campaign to accustom the country (and his mother) to the wifelike status of Camilla Parker Bowles takes second place to burnishing his paternal image. Charles' aides were savvy enough to cooperate once the News of the World sought confirmation for its newest...
...entirely sure why, but I got an inkling during my sophomore year in Historical Studies A-13: “China.” I don’t remember what material was discussed in the section devoted to bias in history; perhaps the journals of a court eunuch, a low-level bureaucrat or a scholar frustrated by failure in the exams. In any case, it was quickly resolved that all the sources before us were biased, fundamentally so. I remember feeling surprise at how easily 20-year-old students—many of whom had never taken a college...
...wipe out the last vestiges of Mongol influence, 11-year-old Ma gained the attention of a conquering general. He was taken back to Nanjing, where he became a page to a young prince, known as Zhu Di. He was castrated and destined for a life serving with other eunuchs in the imperial household, guarding the harem and offering wisdom to the dynastic clan. Somehow the prince and the castrate became friends and when Zhu Di launched a coup d'Etat in 1402, Ma was at his side. The prince, who became the Yongle Emperor, awarded Ma an honorific surname...
...same, only his imperial fleet was sailing to a mighty sultanate, at the peak of its power, not a faded port crumbling into the sea. Yet, despite the paint peeling from its once majestic, oceanfront villas, Mombasa and the surrounding strip of coastline still lure descendants of the seafaring eunuch with promises of unlimited possibility. It's in search of these latter-day adventurers that I, too, have arrived in Africa...