"There's a lot of 'emperor's new clothes' around research and development, " he says.
Set in Rudolf's Prague, this weaves dark and magical tales around the emperor's relations with Rabbi Loew, the great sage of the city's Jewish community, and Mordechai Meisl, the banker, it is said, who kept Rudolf's treasury afloat and who told only his dog where he had buried his gold.
The British reacted by sending an army in 1867 to the Emperor's fortress in Maqdala.
For all of the attention that Masako receives, she can never be more than the emperor's consort.
Its name probably derives from a variation of agonalis or agone, for the games held in the emperor's oval stadium.
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Few people remember this story, Lau says of the Tang-dynasty myth that is said to have originated from an emperor's nightmare.
In September he will re-enact the French emperor's second marriage to a younger Austrian princess, raising his own tricky casting dilemma.
It has been at its present site, on the banks of the Tiber River, since 1938, when Mussolini ordered it placed near the emperor's tomb.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, he was "devoted" to the research involved in the biopic about Napoleon, spending years exploring the French emperor's life in detail.
Defenders of Mr Eyman point out that he has been, until this week, an astute judge of the public temper, and a skilled finger-pointer at the emperor's scanty wardrobe.
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.
Compared with France, Britain in the 1790s already had a bigger manufacturing base, a higher income per head and hence a tax base wide enough to pay for 22 years of conflict that led to the emperor's Waterloo.
There was a secret deciphering office in London, a successor to the Post Office's foreign letter office, and another code-breaking unit in the Admiralty, both of which cracked Napoleon's codes, as did the bureau noir attached to every European government (though the Austrians reckoned their best intelligence came from the emperor's pillow talk).
"I couldn't agree with you more regarding Emperor Garaufis's ruling, I mean Judge Garaufis, " Mr. Vallone told Mr. Cassano.
In 1933, she appeared opposite Paul Robeson in the movie version of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones.
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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They branded the ideas of 969 with a logo: the iconic lion statue of India's Buddhist emperor, Ashoka the Great, set against a prayer wheel and the colorful stripes of the Buddhist prayer flag.
The model has been honed using 43 years' worth of observations of an emperor colony in Antarctica's Terre Adelie.
But in the past 15 years, despite (or perhaps because of) the emperor and the government's best efforts, bass fishing has become the new Elvis in Japan, especially among the country's youth, where the sport has tapped into all of the outlaw, counter-culture character (and growth) that skateboarding has in the U.S. Japan-based tackle manufacturers, like Yozuri, Shimano and Daiwa , now supply bass anglers all over the world.
As the afternoon wore on, there were even reminders of the Central African Republic's troubled past under Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa.
In the late 19th-century industrial revolution that bears his name, Emperor Meiji initiated perhaps Japan's greatest phase of modernization to date.
Ethiopia's capital, founded by Emperor Menelik II in 1886, now has 4.6m people but that figure may well double by 2020.
The 73-year-old's 1987 film The Last Emperor won nine Oscars.
Since then, Japan's prime ministers and the emperor have offered official apologies on many occasions and the government has continued to offer development aid to China.
Those who knew the tomb's secrets were buried alive with their Emperor.
We seem to be a long way from the Exaltation of the Cross, the subject of the last scene in Gaddi's fresco cycle, in which the Emperor Heraclius, having alighted from his horse by order of an angel and walking barefoot like a mendicant friar, bears the relic into the holy city.
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The extremely rare 18th Century ornament, made for a Chinese emperor, was brought to Britain by the seller's family more than a century ago.
In 1941 a Soviet team opened Timur's tomb and discovered that physically at least the emperor was no Hercules.
Captured by the Songhai emperor Sonni 'Ali in 1468, it developed into Mali's most important trading center during the 16th century.
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