Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several eunuchs of the Imperial Palace were discharged without reference for stealing objects d'art during the recent fire in the Forbidden City. (TIME, July 9.)
The imperial eunuchs (of whom there are 100) struck. They threatened sabotage by destroying the Emperor and his palace unless the discharged men were reinstated.
Tim Healy, " squat and square as the first Napoleon," had given a newspaper interview, in which he pointed to the continued refusal of Ulster to appoint a boundary commissioner to cooperate with the Tree State and Great Britain in determining the line between North and South. He denounced the Belfast...
It has an area of a square mile, filled with a large number of palaces and courtyards connecting. The Imperial throne-rooms are at the center of the city. All the private precincts are forbidden to the outside world.
The Tiber's muddy banks have yielded up a colossal statue of Minerva. It was discovered by workmen on the site of the old Emporium which was a landing place for marbles shipped from Greece to Imperial Rome. Antiquaries declare that the statue might have been dropped into the...