Word: kingdoms
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...will top last year's figure. Little wonder, then, that the country's revered 81-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej - whose hospitalization on Sept. 19 for fever and fatigue only added to Thailand's overall sense of unease - cautioned in August that if national unity is not restored, the kingdom could "collapse." (See pictures of the Thai protests...
Except that Moore isn't making works of fiction (though his critics, on the left and the right, might say he is). He's achieved his eminence in the documentary--that noble, educational film form that most moviegoers find as appealing as a visit to the dentist. In the kingdom of cinema genres, the documentary falls somewhere between food taster and peasant advocate...
...Even if the Czech court does clear the treaty, President Vaclav Klaus, an avowed opponent of the document, could delay signing. If the delays drag on until spring next year, it could reopen the process in the United Kingdom: the British Conservatives - expected to win a general election next Spring - have promised to call a British referendum on Lisbon if it is not fully ratified by the time they come to power...
...empires dissolved into nation-states, these spectacles of power swapped their air of mysticism for a more tangible tone of aggression. The military parade entered the modern era with the crack Prussian army, famed for its lockstep discipline. Armies around the world copied the German kingdom's methods of mustering and marching, its salutes and drills. Some of the strict measures applied to troops marching in Beijing on Oct. 1 - like the precisely prescribed distance between an infantryman's nose and that of his colleagues on either side - can be traced to the diktats of Prussian tacticians...
...horse's British trainer Gary Moore told TIME that he "wouldn't be fussed" if it was disqualified for political reasons. Purchased by Kadyrov from the Aga Khan in 2008, Mourilyan has seen more of the world than most Chechens, and has competed in Ireland, Dubai, and the United Kingdom when it competes overseas he is trained by a South African trainer . Moore says that Mourilyan has a "decent chance" of winning if the ground is soft, but "if it's hard ground, he will struggle." As for his controversial owner, Moore says that he's has only communicated with...