In 1861 the city was conquered by the Tukulor emperor al-Hajj 'Umar and was then occupied by the French in 1893.
We know that the clock mechanism soon broke down, and it was up to the eunuchs to pump water manually every time the emperor was passing in front of the statues.
For decades the debate has centered on whether the Emperor was the mastermind of the war or merely a puppet.
That was the famous Meiji emperor, and in his case the visiting American was Commodore Matthew Perry , who steamed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 with a powerful squadron and "suggested" that Japan abandon its feudal isolation and open relations with the outside world.
Simply put, there was no shortage of people saying the emperor was buck naked.
Nigel Smith, Tennants' associate director, said the blue and white vase was made for the Qianlong Emperor around 1730.
In the old days, it was strictly governed by the emperor, who imposed restrictions on height, colour and design.
His unexpected appearance on Peka Peka Beach - north of Wellington and 3, 000km (1, 860 miles) from his Antarctic colony - stunned wildlife experts who said he was only the second emperor ever recorded in New Zealand.
The Japanese believed in the unwritten Samurai code of conduct, known as Bushido, which held that the true warrior was willing to die for the Emperor and would never surrender.
They were convinced that preserving the monarchy, specifically the reigning emperor, was essential if the larger goals of the occupation were to succeed.
Mr Roberts convincingly shows that this was to boost his marshall's morale and that the emperor had a shrewd idea that the duke was indeed his chief rival, and not just in war.
In the end, it was an emperor, Napoleon III, nephew of the more famous Napoleon, who completed the project in the 1850s.
At the imperial durbar at which King Edward VII was proclaimed Emperor of India, the Viceroy, Lord Curzon, rode on the grandest elephant of all.
Earlier this year Uzbekistan banned Valentine's day and introduced plans instead to commemorate the medieval emperor and poet, Babur, who became the first Mughal emperor and was born on 14 February.
Eighty miles east of Tripoli, Leptis Magna was the hometown of Roman Emperor Septimus Severus.
Many loyal Japanese did conclude that, if the emperor was blameless, so were they.
Be brave like the small child who saw and said that the emperor was wearing no clothes.
In 1941 a Soviet team opened Timur's tomb and discovered that physically at least the emperor was no Hercules.
Its exquisite garden of bonsai and carved stone animals was created by the brooding emperor Go Mizuno, whose poetry survives there in stone fragments.
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The emperor was demoted from divinity to mortal, students were banned from celebrating the ancient Tanabata summer festival in school and sumo was booted from the national curriculum.
"The emperor was a symbol of absolute and blind obedience to authority, and that still influences the way Japanese people think, " says Sakurai of the Expel Political Misfits group.
Applied to Getty, who imagined he was the reincarnation of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, and who admired Hitler as a kind of 20th century Hadrian, Mencken was partially right on.
The Constitution of Japan was promulgated and became effective on November 3, 1946, when it was signed by the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and all the ministers of government on that day.
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X-ray machine for the use of the last emperor which was only recently discovered in a storage room in the Forbidden City.
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The Hall of Middle Harmony was a kind of backstage area where the emperor stopped to compose himself and consult with ministers before entering the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
The cover-up was so successful that in Japan discussion of the Emperor and his role has been muted.
The Herzen State University, Russia's leading pedagogical university, was founded in 1797 by Emperor Paul the First and remains dedicated to teachers' training in a wide variety of disciplines.
If she had a worry it was how the officials of the emperor's court regarded her.
The Zhou emperor was chased away and a republic was established.
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