This was the site of the imperial court's grandest events, including coronations and royal birthdays.
Used for state banquets and later for imperial examinations is the Hall of Preserving Harmony.
Probably Beijing's best mid-range option, the rooms are furnished in imperial gold, red and green.
However, if time is of the essence, head straight to the architecturally magnificent Imperial Harem.
Once imperial cuisine, now the legendary duck dish is served at restaurants around the world.
Culinary-wise, not much more happened in imperial Beijing until the 1911 overthrow of the Ching Dynasty.
However, compared to the mess over at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, they look respectable.
The collapse of the imperial world led first to the rise of dictators rather than republicans.
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America, its allies, and other anti-imperial forces, did bring about the collapse of empire.
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Dr Tim Key, a senior scientist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, welcomed the scheme.
It is the demand of spoiled children, or the cosseted residents of the imperial city.
And then, in the last year of British imperial rule, my first child was born here.
Both Philip Morris and Imperial Tobacco could face antitrust issues if they did the deal.
Stability may be a geopolitical virtue, but does not justify a neo-imperial American global presence.
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It is colossally arrogant to think that aloof IMF bureaucrats can restructure economies through imperial decrees.
In 1939, Imperial Airways and British Airways merged to form the British Overseas Airways Corporation.
The Canuck challenge to what it regards as the LSE's imperial ambitions may not succeed.
China is far more dangerous now than Imperial Japan was in the early twentieth century.
We are not an imperial power, but we were called upon to do imperial duty.
It will take more than one such decision to extinguish the concept of the imperial judiciary.
David Harris, an analyst at Imperial Capital, said the company made the right move.
The Imperial College London study in the Lancet Oncology compared patches and injections in 254 patients.
It is said that the Kaiser himself ordered the construction to further his imperial ambitions.
Many considered it linked to a corrupt imperial past or saw in guohua Nationalist tendencies.
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But after she joined the imperial family , she began to suffer from a stress-related illness.
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He went on to say that "none of the challenges" of Imperial Tobacco were well-founded.
David Gelernter is the author of America Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture.
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Imperial administrations lack the agility to cope with an increasingly complex, rapidly changing world.
Books have been written about the so-called imperial presidency, the imperial Congress and the imperial judiciary.
But Shigureden, opened last January, fits in rather well in Japan's former imperial capital.
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