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  • King Charles of Anjou (and Naples), the most powerful ruler of the era, tried to use him as a pawn to gain legitimacy over Sicily.

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  • For a time he had a strong populist image, seen as a champion of the rule of law, praised as the only judge in history to have stood up to a military ruler and won.

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  • July 8th, the day after he died and the end of a month of official mourning for Abacha's death, had been billed for some time as the moment for Nigeria's new ruler, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, to announce a new programme for the transition to democracy, still promised for October 1st.

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  • But it quickly sets its protagonist in the context of the empire of the Mexica (as the Aztecs are properly called), of which he was the ninth and most powerful ruler from 1502 to 1520.

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  • Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed celebrated as Mikael Barzalona rode Monterosso to victory in the the emirate's World Cup in April, but the result was somewhat overshadowed by the death of another Godolphin horse, Fox Hunt, in the inaugural Gold Cup held earlier in the meeting.

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