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Angela Leong became the largest single shareholder of SJM after Stanley Ho distributed much of his business empire among his four wives and 16 surviving children.
FORBES: Macau's SJM Says Profit Jumped 27%
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Between the late 18th and the early 19th centuries four very different types of British empire had begun to emerge.
ECONOMIST: The British empire
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The music industry's multibillion-dollar empire, now shrunk to four major labels and hiding out from the iPod, Zune and XM threats.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), upon entering Parliament in 1780 at the age of twenty-one, resolved, with the aid of his friend William Pitt (Benedict Cumberbatch), soon to be Prime Minister at the age of twenty-four, to end the slave trade in the British Empire.
NEWYORKER: Amazing Grace
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Putin has worked hard these past four years to recapture positions that Russia lost when the Soviet empire disintegrated.
FORBES: Putin Isn't "Gaining Ground" Regardless of what Amir Taheri Says
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He was more than a four-time Cabinet secretary, more than a Knight of the English Empire knighted by Queen Elizabeth, more, too, than Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense.
FORBES: Caspar Weinberger Dies At 88
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Mr Berlusconi has been absent from the airwaves for four days because he is dealing with a crisis in his Fininvest business empire (elderly media mogul struggles with corporate crisis, shock).
BBC: Italy: Enter a coalition of the technorati?
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The pool on Sketty Lane replaced the Empire Pool, which was built for the 1958 Empire Games - forerunner of the Commonwealth Games - and which closed four years ago.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South West Wales | Defects found at ?11m pool
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With four wives and 17 children, choosing a successor to take over the sprawling empire and considerable wealth of Chinese billionaire Stanley Ho Hung Sun was always gong to be a dicey proposition.
FORBES: Tug Of War For China's Gambling Empire
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This particular figurine is one of only four ever found in Britain, with a total of eight known from the whole of the Roman Empire.
BBC: Cirencester Roman cockerel 'best find' in 40 years
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The poem, written on Army notepaper in blue crayon, consists of four 10-line stanzas, each ending with the name of a distant outpost of the British empire.
BBC: Winston Churchill poem to be auctioned