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.
If I could have dinner with one historical figure, it just might be the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.
For all of the attention that Masako receives, she can never be more than the emperor's consort.
Tan heard in 1987 that Bernardo Bertolucci would be filming The Last Emperor in China and Italy.
"Saddam Hussein has certainly figured himself to be a sort of emperor of Mesopotamia and the leader of the Arab world, " Blix said.
While his actual tomb has not been explored yet because of the difficulty in excavating the site, the vast pits containing the terracotta soldiers, cavalry, archers and officers can be viewed at the Emperor Qui Shi Huang Mausoleum Site Museum.
Cartier-Bresson, in presumably exposing us for what we are, seems to be showing not that the emperor has no clothes but that he has ugly clothes, mottled skin and a strange hair-do.
In 1945, the World War II Allies replied to a Japanese communiqu , saying the authority of the Emperor and the Japanese government to rule Japan would be subject to the Allied Supreme Commander.
Should the Florida court be put in its place--overridden and thus shorn of its emperor's new clothes--we will have at last begun to rectify the constitutional imbalance created by the imperial judiciary.
Jay-Z (2-1): Shawn Carter is 43, the emperor of modern hip-hop, but he'd still be seen as a fresher choice than Springsteen or Bon Jovi.
Animals like the Emperor of Exmoor, a red deer shot dead in Devon, should be protected, according to a group of MPs.
The Emperor Tiberius positioned couches round his retreat in Capri so that foreign visitors could be amazed and impressed by his debaucheries.
But the idea of an "enemy of the public" can be traced all the way back to the year 68AD, when the Roman Senate declared Emperor Nero a "hostis publicus".
Hindu nationalists have always considered the site to be the birthplace of Ram, while Muslims say it is an historical site built by the Mughal emperor Babar.
Emperor Qianlong sent a golden urn to Lhasa, in which the names of candidates proposed for reincarnation would be placed.
In the 4th century, Emperor Constantine founded a church on the site, which was destroyed in the year 529, only to be replaced by larger structures, which form the basis of the church today.
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