They may well guess it is one of those memorable buildings, like the Chrysler or Empire State.
Georgia was once part of a large Iranian, or Persian, empire.
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The main reason for the resulting rise in the number of mini-countries is the shift from empire or dictatorship to self-determination, especially in the past quarter-century.
You can go back to the beginning of the Church, or the Roman Empire, and there never was a time that the media was in the hands of people.
But he never attacked the Murdoch empire or any other newspaper group by name and although he believed the media was out of control, he always resisted calls from within his own inner circle to take them on.
So you can take it that we are in a long-term bear market equivalent to the fall of the Roman Empire or you can see this period as just another one of the nasty economic periods we have suffered periodically since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
After all, they argued, isn't leading an army or building a political empire a bit like guiding a company through the cut and thrust of modern business?
During that time, the word "moor" itself underwent a change of definition: Originally meaning a Muslim, it became a generic term for any person from Africa or from the Ottoman Empire.
In the twin island nation, where Sir Allen has lived for nearly 20 years, every one of the 75, 000 inhabitants either works for some part of his business empire, or is related to or knows someone who does.
The highest post of the Ottoman government was only relatively safer (no executions) during the first 160 and the last 100 or so years of the empire.
But many of these are descendants of Christians who were killed or deported as the Ottoman empire collapsed, and went on to be big traders in provincial African towns.
The enduring taboo subject is skin color, whether an individual's complexion betrays an allegiance to the Spanish who conquered the Aztec empire in 1521 or the Aztecs who were conquered.
For example, on any given day 300 or more police officers, often drawn from every precinct in the City, are ordered to converge on some previously undisclosed, but high-value locations (such as the Empire State Building or Times Square).
The adjustable lights can be programmed for red and green at Christmas or orange at Halloween, Empire State Building-style.
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However, his marriage in 1992 to a journalist and fellow Canadian, Barbara Amiel, and his own outrageous sense of entitlement were more than the finances of either the Telegraph or the rest of his shaky empire could bear.
And the British Empire is certainly either nonexistent or a shadow of itself.
In fact, argues Mr Darwin, there was, at least for its first 100 years or so, no single vision of empire, but several.
As the narrative sweeps between the great powers of Europe, the reader is left wondering what happened in, say, the Netherlands (then still an empire), in Sweden or in Italy.
In the last week or so it has been that the Empire State (NY area) Mfg Index, the Philadelphia Fed Index, and the Dallas (Texas area) Fed Index, plunged dramatically in May.
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Think Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire and just about every fashion or interior designer out there.
Like unread copies of The Wealth of Nations or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, they are tossed into the trash bin.
Gilanis have a taste for tart, fruity flavors like those in this dish, which has been around in one form or another since the days of the Persian Empire.
Whenever anyone points to the fragility of his business empire, in terms of losses or lack of tangible assets, Mr Branson points to the intangible benefit locked up in his brands.
British fashion designer Paul Smith took a break from overseeing his clothing empire to talk to a hundred or so fans and curious observers at the Apple Store in Covent Garden, London on Wednesday night.
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The search for cheap housing has pushed people away from the Pacific and into places like the "Inland Empire, " which is an hour or two drive through smog-filled traffic jams from Los Angeles.
Investigators allege that Vito Nicastri was a front man for the Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, investing illegal earnings in his business empire.
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