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...dnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agreed to convey some hollow candlesticks from the Emperor to the Princess Marionoff in St Petersburg, two spies both see the possibility of using them to convey messages safely into Russia. One is an eager young idealist involved in the plot against the prince, the other is ...

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...n 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Prize in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Emperor of Portugallia was first Published 1914 in Sweden, and 1916 in English, translated by Velma Swanston Howard. The Story i set in Vaermland around 1860 or 1870. In the centre is Jan of Ruffluck Croft. He loves his daugh...

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...to live with her embittered maiden aunt and to take up her inheritance of the family jewels. The Cheyne jewels include a pendant featuring the Purple Emperor, a priceless jewel looted from a temple during the Indian Mutiny. During her time at school in Paris, Lady Margaret has met and fallen in love with Sir Edgar Brenton, the son of an old flame of her aunt and a neighbou...

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...-VI (Aegean Coves, Telchines of Rhodes) Act III Scenes I-II (Menelaus' Palace, Castle Court) Act IV Scenes I-III (Mountains, Headland:Battle, Emperor's Tent) Act V Scenes I-VII (Country, Garden, Palace, Night, Midnight, Outer Court, Mountain:Forest:Rock:Desert)...

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...language that has further enriched the beautifully flowing dialogue between the characters. The protagonist is the witty magician, who challenges the Emperor in his weird and sudden decision to establish justice in his country, only because he is bored of being oppressor for so long....

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...XI:71 A weighty cure Book XI:92 Zoilus Book XII:21 Marcella Book XII:58 Two for a pair Book XIV: Us pipes Coda: Book XI:2 Freedom! Thanks to our Emperor Nerva...

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...e explained is not the eternal Principle”, may have many ‘negative interpretations’, or even degrees of negations. For instance, the Chinese first emperor Qin Shihuang’s atrocity “to burn the books and bury the Confucian scholars alive”, is an example “To blockade and forbid the Principle, thus there is not the eternal Principle”. Namely, with this manner, Qin Shihuang ...

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...e last period of Turkish Empire. The period in which appointing a state governor (Pasha) can easily come about by paying small amount of money to the Emperor’s men in Istanbul, without taking into consideration the characteristics and personality of the person who would they send to become ‘Pasha’ of Baghdad. The story contains harsh scenes about the life of Baghdad’s i...

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... with gold and silver, representing views of palaces, horsemanship, concert of music, audience chamber, banquet, and medallion portraits of 18 Indian Emperors, mounted on cardboard, ornamented with elegant floriated borders executed in hilliant colours, heightened with gold and silver, morocco, silk linings...

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...e liberation of Peru. In 1824, Bolivar was declared dictator - or, to be precise, "Emperor" - of Peru and commander in chief of its army. Bolivar l... ...many centuries old when it was devastated by fire in the civil war under the Roman emperor Aurelian in the late 3rd century AD. Its branch was dest... ...19 http://www.suite101.com/links.cfm/npd Nero According to the historian Suetonius, Emperor Nero (37- 68), fifth Emperor of Rome from AD 54 to 68, wa... ...name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. When Agrippina the Younger married her uncle, Emperor Claudius I, she convinced him to adopt the child and he ... ...rusus Germanicus. Nero married his stepfather's daughter, Octavia. He was declared Emperor at the tender age of 17. Nero promptly had his mother po... ...of his legions - he fled Rome and committed suicide. http://www.roman-empire.net/emperors/nero-index.html http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10752... ...rs/nero-index.html http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10752c.htm http://www.roman-emperors.org/nero.htm New Economic Policy (NEP) Mikhail Gorb... ...d Titanic (1997) won 11 academy awards (Oscars) each. Gigi (1958) and The Last Emperor (1987) were nominated for 9 awards and won them all. ...

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...s a distant relative, I believe through his mother’s line, of Bahadur Shah The Second, the Moghul Emperor in Delhi. The Brigadier General is the new... ...about six miles, as the crow flies, from the northern gate of the city. It was built by the Mogul Emperor, the Great Akbar, at the beginning of the ... ...e winning side and after the death of Aurungzib, who I would say, was the last truly great Moghul Emperor, the Nawab’s great grandfather sought the ... ...e. She was a Creole and she remembered that other famous Creole who had enslaved the heart of the Emperor Napoleon in the last century. The Spanish... ...cesses must be prepared to marry for political reasons and my union with the family of the Moghul Emperor, Bahadur Shah the Second, is a great honou... ... into her. This melancholia of hers must stop. She is to be married into the family of our Moghul Emperor, a great honour.’ The Begum sat down on a... ... have to leave her doting parents and her beloved brother but she had read the chronicles of the Emperor Shah Jehan and his love for the Princess M... ...SE OF KALI 179 huge procession of richly bedecked elephants, uniformed cavalry, troopers of the Emperor’s camel corps, covered palanquins, musician... ...that it is my wish that any issue from our consummation should be conceived in his father’s, the Emperor’s Palace, to protect his right to the succe...

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...hat German kings, since Charles the Great in 800 A.D., had been called Roman Emperors after receiving papal coronation. Perhaps, though, he is referr... ... and Christian martyr, whose courage during the persecution under the Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius (161–180), was extolled by Eusebius. CL 1, 462. ... ... a sermon on Matthew 18, WA 47, 302–303. The court jester of a certain Roman emperor, in mockery of the Christian sacrament, had himself liberally dr... ...s well as through the sacrament of ordination, they have become such mighty emperors and princes. But now it is a fortunate thing that they despise t...

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...me. Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 Part II. -277- The church of Christ endured from the emperors the most terrible persecutions, almost without inte... ...was accomplished in the last persecution of Dioclesian, and in Dioclesian himself. This emperor, they say, it is, who is here signified and announce... ...nounced by the beast with seven heads and ten horns. If we ask, what seven heads in one emperor may mean? They answer, that they mean seven emperors... ... two important things: —first, that in this list Constantius Clorus is wanting, who was emperor conjointly with Dioclesian, Maximian, and Galerius, ... ...rovinces of the empire, that is, Spain, France, England, &c. Why then do they omit this emperor? Is it perhaps, because he did not choose to admit t... ...earth shall worship him. We remark, secondly, that if the seven heads signify the seven emperors who persecuted the church conjointly with Dioclesian... ...e is the eighth, and is of the seven; because he was the eighth, in respect of the same emperors above mentioned, who persecuted the church; but, in... ...slight addition of Augustus; which appears as if you should say, that the mark of seven emperors, who partly with Dioclesian, and partly after him, ... ...del Roman empire, arisen from the grave with new and greater grandeur; nor that the new emperors should root out of her the christian religion, and ...

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...ts, schizophrenics attempted to turn these visions into reality. Kings and emperors attempted it. Popes and gurus attempted it. Karl Marx, Hitler, Sta...

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...yed host to King David and to Jesus, to King Solomon and to countless wannabe Roman emperors. It is one of the cradles of civilization and you can f...

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...ved in the job, described her co-worker in some detail. "He sounds like an emperor I once knew in India." "If he was a pompous a—" She cut herself off... ...enturies. Not since 1566 when his assassination attempt on the then-Mughal emperor, Akbar, failed. He had succeeded only in injuring Akbar's shoulder ... ...ailed. He had succeeded only in injuring Akbar's shoulder as the fortunate emperor rode back into Delhi. After this incident, Akbar changed his method... ... failure almost preordained. Though Kane is as noble and formidable as the emperor ever was, and despite the djinn's hybrid origins, Ifreet does not i...

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...uch and summoned lights. At early day- break he was assassinated by order of the Emperor Augustus. Two Arcedian friends, journeying togethe...

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...m to death. But to execute Rashbi, they had to seize him first. The Roman emperor sent men to search for him, but to their disappointment, Rashbi s... ...f creation. After thirteen years in the cave, Rashbi heard that the Roman emperor had died. Finally, he could heave a sigh of relief. After leaving ...

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... to that of twirling and dizzy children while fantasies stepped forward as emperors of the spinning domain. At times when they were more conscious of ...

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...dent have fallen into the hands of the heathen and come to the knowledge of the emperor. But what had either St. Peter or the Christians in such a ca... ...5,16. Besides when St. Peter wrote this epistle, there was not any edict of the emperor against the Christians nor any prohibition of Christianity; ... ...r the death of our Lord, which, as appears, corresponds to the beginning of the emperor Claudius, which is more than twenty years before the first p...