The opening words from Cyrus to his new empire are very much what would have been expected of a conquering hero.
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And this in turn raises two difficulties for the concept of a new American empire.
On the most fundamental level I tend not to see the construction of new German Empire as disconcerting.
But what he achieved with his new media empire was more than just political points against his rivals.
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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.
The Helmsleys' real estate empire in New York at one time included the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Palace hotel, the Helmsley Building at the foot of Park Avenue and the Tudor City apartment complex in addition to several other hotel properties.
Anyone who gets all ten right will receive a signed copy of the new paperback edition of Empire State of Mind (complete with a new foreword by Steve Forbes himself).
The proposed new company, Empire State Realty Trust, would combine the 1931 skyscraper with 18 other properties.
Some conservative Republicans have identified China as a new "evil empire, " succeeding the former Soviet Union as the glue for the party's foreign policy.
We also had reports of weaker than expected manufacturing from the New York Fed Empire State Manufacturing Survey and from the Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index.
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It is a situation made to order for Iran, with its aspirations to dominate the region in a new caliphate, or empire.
New York's Empire State Building has increased security personnel by 25% and added scanning machines at all five entrances, to the tune of several million dollars.
New York's Empire State Building, which has been derided by some in the real estate world as the "Empty State Building", has also had trouble filling out its offices.
The mill was built around an iron frame in a technique adapted in the rebuilding of Chicago in the late 19th Century and for skyscrapers such as New York's Empire State Building.
Global landmarks that are going green on 17 March include Niagara Falls, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Burj al Arab in Dubai, Table Mountain in South Africa, New York's Empire State Building and Berlin's TV Tower.
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It seems a development team at MicroProse has been working on Star Trek: The Next Generation--Birth of the Federation, a new Trek-based empire builder built upon the foundation set by MicroProse's Civ II and Master of Orion II.
This week, the release of Revenge of the Sith completes a six-movie, 15 hour sequence in which the trilogy of films released in the last six years (The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and now Revenge of the Sith) form a prequel to the original Star Wars films released between 1977 and 83, numbered parts IV-VI (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi).
Co-owner Dietrich Mateschitz, the founder of the Red Bull drinks empire, said new rules being introduced in 2010 had forced his hand.
Mr. Paulson has made a very successful career, an immense personal fortune and an astounding financial empire at the New York-based investment house, Goldman Sachs.
Two decades after the Kremlin started beating the retreat from the Soviet empire, a new hegemony, based on pipelines rather than tanks, is advancing and shows every sign of proving durable.
Murdoch's international newspaper empire includes the New York Post, the News International stable of UK titles including the Sun and the Times, and a cluster of Australian papers including the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun.
In his new book, Evening's Empire, historian Craig Koslofsky puts forward an account of how this happened.
The New York Federal Reserve's Empire State survey rose to 10.04 in February, compared with a negative 7.78 in January.
The New York Federal Reserve's Empire State survey rose to 10.04 in February, compared with a negative 7.78 in December.
The success of Boardwalk Empire has also inspired new visitors, and casinos and restaurants are capitalizing on this by offering special dining and lodging promotions.
The empire: Newspapers (New York Post, Times of London, the Australian), movies (Twentieth Century Fox), television (Fox Broadcasting), books (HarperCollins), sports (Los Angeles Dodgers), cable and satellite TV.
The Empire State Building in New York has increased security personnel by 25% and added baggage-scanning machines at its five entrances to the tune of several million dollars.
Skanska provides a detailed case study of how they were able to retrofit their New York City headquarters in the Empire State Building and first commercial building in Scandinavia to achieve LEED Platinum precertification.
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It hasn't been just new projects that are making headlines: In November, even the Empire State Building got a makeover, when the owners installed a new LED light system whose millions of colors can ripple, cross-fade, strobe and burst in time to the tunes of Alicia Keys or a special New Year's show.
Mr Gilmour's biography does not entirely live up to the claims that it makes to say something new about Kipling's relations with empire.
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