Great Britain became a world empire when it pioneered steam power in the 19th century, Mr. Kaku recounts.
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The Frontiers of the Roman Empire UNESCO World Heritage Site has become the focus of a new online art and design learning resource.
On the one hand, Poland was dominated by the USSR during the last century, and by the Russian Empire before World War I.
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Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, Arab states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been the widely recognized leaders of the Islamic world.
But until now, Americans missed out on the gin that fueled the incredibly powerful British Navy and in turn, greased the wheels of the largest empire the world has ever seen.
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It was when he broke into the food supplements world that his business empire really took off - first in the United States, then back in his native Mexico with the launch of his own vitamins company, Grupo Omnilife.
Both during the post-World War I breakup of the Ottoman Empire and with the breakup of the British and French empires after World War II, British and French imperial authorities colluded with Arab imperialists to guarantee the latter's nearly uninhibited control over the Middle East.
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Under construction since 2006, One World Trade Center surpassed the Empire State Building (1, 250 feet) as the city's tallest structure in April.
The reform may challenge the empire of the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, whose America Movil company controls two-thirds of the phone market.
When the area was part of the Ottoman Empire prior to World War One, it was three separate provinces centered on Baghdad, Basra and Mosul, in recognition of its ethnic diversity.
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Gladstone, a formidable reformer, personified an era when the British Empire was the great world power.
The major focuses include landmark locations such as the Empire State Building and World Trade Center site.
Between the world wars, when the British Empire held sway over the subcontinent, adventurers came from far and wide to map the region's valleys and scale its highest summits.
After World War I the defeated Ottoman Empire's most successful general, Mustafa Kemal , took over and made the revolutionary decision that Turkey's future lay in tying itself firmly to the West.
" To quote Mr. Malkin, "branding elevates the Empire State Building to a world-wide standard of excellence.
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After nearly 300 years as part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the treaty ending World War I established Czechoslovakia as an independent country.
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Soon he would, in the name of Empire, rearrange the living world.
The ultimate is Hampi, once the capital of the rich, powerful Vijayanagar empire and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site: 16 miles of ruined temples and palaces from the 14th century.
It would have been more relevant, historically and geographically, to refer to the annexation of the Afghan kingdom to the North-West Frontier Province by the British raj, which happened soon after the casual carve-up of the Ottoman Empire had enraged the Muslim world.
The empire: Cemex has become the world's third-largest cement company -- and the most profitable.
So the state then replaces the empire as the fundamental unit of world affairs.
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The nineteenth was the British century, of industry and empire, the workshop of the world, Waterloo and the Great Exhibition.
As Europe and the empire continued to rebuild after the World War II the royal party arrived for the Festival of Britain exhibition at Castlereagh.
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