Much of what we know about the emperors is based on myth and misunderstanding.
The British Museum said it will explore "real" Roman people, not the emperors and gladiators portrayed in films.
The emperors now had to wheedle taxes and manpower from these great powers.
Since the tax revenues from a diminished empire could not meet such increased expenditures, the emperors started paying soldiers and suppliers in depreciated coinage.
In this view, George Bush is the successor of a long line of rulers, from the Byzantine emperors, to the Holy Roman emperors to Queen Victoria, who have obstructed the divinely ordained and inevitable spread of Islam.
The popular royal dish moved with the court to Beijing in the early 15th Century and the many cooks who made a pilgrimage to the new palace kitchens of the Forbidden City to impress the emperors refined it over time.
According to a fascinating post by Judith Weingarten ( Whose Christmas Is It, Anyway?), it appears it was the Roman emperors in the 4th century that decided to one-up Christians by co-opting the date.
And The New Elite will be more than hopping on their private jets to move from castle to castle to yacht, pushing up the prices of art and trying to emulate the Roman Emperors, the 18th century French nobility or the Russian Tsars.
As with the blond Scandinavian bodyguards who attended the Byzantine emperors, their uprightness was all the more starkly evidenced by the shiftiness of the guy they were protecting.
Some 20, 000 pieces--including arms, armour, ceramics, earthenware, seals and decorative arts from ancient Persia, Mamluk Egypt and the Mughal emperors in India and Kuwait of the Bronze Age--were packed in crates and driven to the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad in a 17-lorry convoy.
Similarly, the Janissaries, the elite slave troops of the Ottoman emperors, were not allowed to marry.
The gallery boasts a dazzling array of timepieces, many of which were gifts to the Qing emperors from abroad.
Catering to the Little Emperors and Empresses can add up to big money.
His clan migrated to Pakistan from Central Asia with the Mughal emperors.
During the seventeenth century, from the fort of Lahore, the Mughal emperors ruled most of India, all of what is now Pakistan, and large areas of Afghanistan.
There is the Forbidden City, which is the ancient imperial palace where dozens of Chinese emperors ruled the country for 500 years.
Mr. MATT LAUER (Host, "The Today Show"): The sun sets on Beijing the same way it did for China's emperors through the ages.
When you think of Roman history, the first things that come to mind are probably the stories of emperors, gladiators, and soldiers.
The affable Hawaiian-born Konishiki slapped all-comers out of the ring for a brief period in the early 1990s, prompting Japan's nationalistic sumo officials to worry that an avalanche of foreign giants might take the skill out of the sport of emperors.
This was the portal through which Chinese emperors emerged from their palace, the Forbidden City, to meet the people.
Yet despite the parade of kings and emperors who have passed through its corridors, the Louvre has never looked as splendid as it does now.
Fourteen Ming and 10 Qing emperors called the Forbidden City home and the intrigue, scandal and drama that went on here has inspired countless films and books.
Between 1420 and 1924, 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties lived here in near-total seclusion, rarely venturing out beyond the 10-metre-thick walls, and commanding an almost divine power over their subjects.
When my father was born, in 1910, 80% of the world was ruled by emperors.
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They abolished the aristocracy and divested 11 families of imperial status, considerably shrinking the pool from which future emperors could be drawn.
Li Qingshan, a social psychologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, speculates without comment that the grown-up Little Emperors will treat their own children much as they were treated.
They look like emperors, which were showcased in the hit movie March of the Penguins.
Marcus Aurelius' foolish son Commodus squandered the imperial treasury, and expenses skyrocketed as later emperors launched expensive wars of choice against family enemies, greatly enlarged their imperial armies and raised military salaries.
Centuries ago, when kings, emperors, and warlords reigned over much of the world, it was the English who first spelled out the rights and liberties of man in the Magna Carta.
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