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Word: shahjahan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, Donald Trump should have done his homework on the ill fortune that befell the builder of the original Taj. The cost of constructing the 17th century Indian marvel, which took 20,000 laborers 22 years to complete, eventually exhausted the royal treasury of the Shahjahan and triggered the decline of the Mogul Empire. Nearly 350 years later, the Taj's modern namesake may have unleashed the grandiose downfall of Manhattan's self-styled King of the Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble with A Big T | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

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