Nevertheless, von Siebald's diverse collection of Japanese materials found its way to Europe, and later became part of the Royal Cabinet of Curiosities (an Oriental collection established by the Dutch king).
According to Belinda Budge, publishing director of Thorsons, Britain's biggest self-help publisher and part of Harper Collins, sales of books about yoga and reiki, an Oriental healing system, have exploded in the past 18 months.
But later, when George V visited India in person to be crowned emperor, he made the mistake of riding on a mere horse, which was not at all how an oriental potentate was expected to travel.
Some were brilliant, including his biography of Sir Edmund Backhouse, an unscrupulous British oriental scholar, and his satirical essays on life at Oxford published under the pseudonym Mercurius Oxoniensis.
The animals were hunted to satisfy the demand for horn, which was used to fashion handles for ceremonial Yemeni daggers and as an ingredient to reduce fever in oriental medicine (not as an aphrodisiac, despite popular belief).
But in the case of Arrian it could be argued that, against his own better judgment perhaps (the ideal of karteria you mention), he did also see some degree of deterioration, some sort of decline, in Alexander from the ideal Greek-style monarch into an excessively despotic, oriental-style ruler.
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Among them: Yin, Yang and You, an Australian production devoted to Oriental exercise routines.
The U.S.-listed New Oriental is such an entity and its VIE, or the operation company in China, was originally owned by the CEO Yu Minhong and ten other shareholders.
Check in to Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star Mandarin Oriental, Miami for an Eastern spin on Art Basel.
An upper-level loft has a small kitchenette, Oriental rugs, hardwood floors and a leather couch.
Meanwhile the Queen has hosted an event for British and foreign royals at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, near Hyde Park, in central London.
Christopher Davis, an anthropologist at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), said traditional healers can play a role as mental health providers.
For instance Best Western, Carlson, Mandarin Oriental and others have teamed up with Clean the World, an initiative that recycles your partially used soap from the hotel room.
In July 2012, New Oriental Education (EDU) announced that it was the subject of an SEC investigation regarding the specific details of its VIE structures.
Positioned at Pudong's tip, the Oriental Pearl Tower was a cartoonish totem for China's race into modernity and an emphatic counterpoint to the Bund, a strip of colonial-era buildings on the opposite Puxi bank of the Huangpu River.
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Shares in Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation swelled by more than 38% in London trading when rumors circulated of an offer by state-owned Dubai Ports World .
An 18th Century jade bowl and a Dehua porcelain figurine were stolen during the raid at Durham University's Oriental Museum in April.
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Oriental Daily News says villagers attacked a fellow villager in Pailian, Zhejiang, after he had offered an environmental official money to swim in a polluted river.
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