Having captured Moscow but with the Russian army having withdrawn and winter approaching, the emperor realised he had to turn back.
Shergar won like an Emperor but he hardly beat good opposition.
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.
There, before an audience that included the emperor of Brazil, he gave his most famous public performance.
Parveen, however, composed a couplet for the emperor asking him why he should want to enjoy a meal that was already tasted, and earned her release to return home.
Using an example from the Bible, he said: "Faced with what looks like a simple challenge about whether you pay taxes to the Roman Emperor or not, he famously shrugs it off, saying, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar and give God what belongs to God.
Napoleon was so popular that he declared himself emperor in 1804, and it stuck.
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According to Chinese traditions, when a new emperor comes to the throne, he will give an amnesty.
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.
Since he replaced Pope John Paul II, Benedict has made repeated calls for religious tolerance and freedom in Islamic countries - most notably in his 2006 speech at Regensberg where he quoted a Byzantine emperor from the Middle Ages criticizing Islam for seeking to spread its message by the sword.
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He says his decision to begin stepping down now is inspired by Chinese history, specifically the Qianlong Emperor, who ruled from 1736 until 1796, when he was 84 years old.
His unexpected appearance on Peka Peka Beach - north of Wellington and 3, 000km (1, 860 miles) from his Antarctic colony - stunned wildlife experts who said he was only the second emperor ever recorded in New Zealand.
He served as the 16th Roman Emperor until his death in 180 C.
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He is Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor viewed by many Chinese as the founder of the country 6, 000 years ago.
In September he will re-enact the French emperor's second marriage to a younger Austrian princess, raising his own tricky casting dilemma.
His mother died when he was 11 and his father, Emperor Charles V, was often abroad, occasionally even for years at a time.
In 1975, his followers plowed over the course where Vietnam's last emperor, Bao Dai, used to play before he abdicated in 1945, and built a fruit farm.
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Eventually he became court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Philip II, King of Spain.
Last year, an emperor penguin, the original Happy Feet, made headlines when he appeared on New Zealand's shores.
Eventually, he led his group to obtain amnesty from the emperor.
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"There's a lot of 'emperor's new clothes' around research and development, " he says.
Later in the day he'll have the opportunity that he is particularly looking forward to, to meet with the Emperor and Empress of Japan.
George Mudie, Labour MP for Leeds East, told the governor he had come "into this room a King and left an Emperor".
In France, he helped topple two kings (Louis XVI and Charles X) and an emperor (Napoleon).
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Spielberg recently announced that he would make a TV mini-series about the life of the French Emperor Napoleon.
He inherited more of his temperament from his grandfather, the driving, autocratic Emperor Meiji, than from his sickly, dilettante father, Emperor Taisho.
Historically, Timbuktu's legend began to spread throughout the medieval world when the Emperor of Mali made his pilgrimage to Mecca through Cairo in 1324, and dazzled those he encountered with the gold his party carried.
The fact Bikila -- who served as a bodyguard for Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in his day job -- chose to run without shoes only added to the impression that he was not to be taken seriously.
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