Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Waterloo to 1914 there were a score of issues over which France and Britain might have fought. They were old enemies and current imperial rivals. Yet they did not fight: the French had little chance against British sea power; the British had little interest in destroying the French check...
Wrote one: "Professional cultivators in the days of imperial patronage developed more than 20 rare varieties of wondrous beauty . . . Many old established residents . . . have kept up the cultivation of goldfish in their private pools. In my courtyard there are several dozen fish, including the rare Red Dragon-Eye and the...
In St. Petersburg in the winter, Igor loved to prowl among the operatic scores of his father, Feodor, a famed basso who was Chaliapin's predecessor at the Imperial Opera. Young Igor was given a "piano mistress" at nine, quickly learned to read music-and improvise. His parents did...
Meanwhile further cuts in the Imperial Household budget seemed likely, and Premier Hitoshi Ashida put the boot to some of Hirohito's old-guard retainers, who still wore striped pants and cutaways, still called the Emperor O-kami (Honorable God). Imperial Grand Steward Yoshitami Matsudaira, a palace henchman for...
Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, young Hahn designed a stern academy to "molest" the contentedly unfit.* In 1920, in the castle of Prince Max of Baden, last Imperial chancellor, Hahn took the Prince's son and three neighborhood children as his first pupils. By the time...