It was initially built under the auspices of Emperor Yongle between 1406 and 1420.
Beijing was built to show off the power of the emperor and leave visitors in awe.
Maybe it takes a central banker to say that the emperor creates no jobs.
Eighty miles east of Tripoli, Leptis Magna was the hometown of Roman Emperor Septimus Severus.
Founded by the forward-thinking emperor, Peter the Great, the city has always been Russia's cultural capital.
In 378, Roman Emperor Valens attacked the Visigoths in the decisive battle of Adrianople.
It would have been an undertaking that maybe a Chinese emperor or Stalin might have undertaken.
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Its discovery revived memories of another penguin, an Emperor nicknamed Happy Feet, that arrived in 2011.
They saw the departure as the last days of a modern-day Roman emperor, mired in scandal.
Napoleon was so popular that he declared himself emperor in 1804, and it stuck.
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In 1194, Frederick II, the Holy Roman emperor from 1220 to 1250, was born.
In 44 BC, conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius assassinated Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor.
Simply put, there was no shortage of people saying the emperor was buck naked.
They marched in orderly ranks, three abreast, like emperor penguins in a nature film.
That ethnic minorities have no interest in the Yellow Emperor is occasionally noted by Chinese commentators.
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The emperor released the prisoners and attempted to make peace with Napier, but failed.
The British reacted by sending an army in 1867 to the Emperor's fortress in Maqdala.
But, the Chinese emperor would have none of the European goods, which he outright banned.
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In France, he helped topple two kings (Louis XVI and Charles X) and an emperor (Napoleon).
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Initially, it was administered by a governor on behalf of the Mughal emperor in Delhi.
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In 1155, Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV.
Many loyal Japanese did conclude that, if the emperor was blameless, so were they.
"That's the emperor mentality, " says Fred Hu, chief China economist for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong.
The emperor has long been in the admirable habit of apologising for Japanese aggression.
Finally, a youth in the banquet hall declaring that the Emperor has no clothes.
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Japan has a symbolic emperor and a parliament, and citizens do not directly elect their leader.
One example is Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian, " an imagined life of the Roman emperor Hadrian.
If she had a worry it was how the officials of the emperor's court regarded her.
Shooting would be held up for a week while "the Emperor" waited for a perfect cloud.
Is Japan now ready for a more objective and honest reassessment of the Emperor?
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