• The British reacted by sending an army in 1867 to the Emperor's fortress in Maqdala.

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  • They evangelized much of Asia in the 16th century, acting as emissaries to the Emperor of China, among other kingdoms.

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  • Its history goes back to the Emperor Domitian in the first century.

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  • They've been taught blind obedience to the emperor, but their loyalty collides with their instinct for survival as they come to understand that they're destined to die inside their caves.

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  • 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.

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  • Hence, in Japan, when a wealthy man died, the eldest son inherited all, generally land, and the younger siblings, who were equally educated, tended to migrate to the cities and transferred their allegiance to the emperor rather than their families.

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  • Perhaps the roots of Japan's difficulty in confronting its wartime actions lie in the compromises of the occupation years, especially the refusal to hold the Emperor to account.

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  • But the plain truth is and our intelligence reports are clear on this matter the Jap forces are, more than ever before, prepared to die for the Emperor, to fight to the last man.

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  • What's more, the effort to preserve the Emperor's pacifist image didn't end with his death.

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  • Before the Revolution, Russia had not yet adopted the Gregorian calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to mitigate the errors of the Julian calendar, which owes its name to the Roman emperor who had chosen it 46 years before the birth of Jesus Christ.

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  • One legend contends that Valentine was a Christian martyr executed for standing up to the Roman emperor who wanted to ban soldiers from getting married.

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  • Above all, however, it was General MacArthur's decision not to have the emperor indicted for war crimes, nor even allowed to abdicate, that did more than anything to heal the Japanese psyche.

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  • But instead, relations deteriorated - to the point where the emperor decided to detain the British Consul in Ethiopia and other foreigners.

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  • It is also where the Silk Road ended in the East and is home to the famed army of terracotta soldiers that belonged to the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang.

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  • The new Chinese empire of the title has, according to Mr Terrill, more in common than it would care to admit with the past, all the way back to the first emperor of all, Qin Shihuang.

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  • Governments in Shaanxi and in Henan province, which claims to be the emperor's birthplace, are competing (and reportedly spending millions of dollars) to make their respective Yellow Emperor shrines pre-eminent.

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  • Officials plan to excavate the Emperor's tomb, which lies under a hill about a kilometer from the museum.

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  • Best to keep the emperor happy and avoid mentioning them right now.

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  • But nobody accepted his invitation to moon the emperor.

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  • Eamonn Bowles, president of Magnolia Pictures, said the release date was "an obvious choice, " because Mr. Marley was a devout Rastafarian, whose religion believes using marijuana is a way to get closer to the late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.

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  • 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.

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  • The supermarket is to move into The Emperor on Norwich Road in Ipswich, which is owned by Punch Taverns.

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  • The Japanese believed in the unwritten Samurai code of conduct, known as Bushido, which held that the true warrior was willing to die for the Emperor and would never surrender.

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  • Inscribed with the name Nur Jahan, the wife of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahangir, this heart-shaped diamond is believed to have been a gift from the ruler to his son, who became the great emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666).

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  • In 1945, the World War II Allies replied to a Japanese communiqu , saying the authority of the Emperor and the Japanese government to rule Japan would be subject to the Allied Supreme Commander.

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  • 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.

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  • The conservatives helped to bring over from Europe the Archduke Maximilian to be emperor of Mexico a disaster that lasted three years and ended in Maximilian's execution.

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  • By using satellites, the researchers were able to conduct their census when the emperor penguins were still gathered at their breeding grounds to tend their young.

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  • Items also declared treasure by Norfolk's assistant deputy coroner David Osborne included an Anglo-Saxon silver pin found in Scoulton, a Middle Bronze Age Gold Bead discovered in Salthouse and a hoard of 59 silver Roman coins that date from the Roman Republic to Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome.

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  • " He writes: "Many Japanese, after all, had been complicit with him in waging war, and the nation as a whole came to feel that because the Emperor had not been held responsible, neither should they.

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