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America Has Been an Empire for 157 Years. Just Ask the Emperor.

Edit Slate 18 Sep 2016
the Emperor of the United States, Joshua Abraham Norton of San Francisco. It’s hard to deny a nation-state is an empire when it has an honest-to-god emperor, even if his reign was somewhat disputed ... Emperor of the United States ... Wise had John Brown executed after Harpers Ferry, Emperor Norton decreed that Wise was to be immediately removed from office and replaced by John C ... Emperor Norton’s desperate gambit had failed....

Meet the United States' somewhat disputed emperor

Edit Business Insider 18 Sep 2016
Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico ... the Emperor of the United States, Joshua Abraham Norton of San Francisco. It’s hard to deny a nation-state is an empire when it has an honest-to-god emperor, even if his reign was somewhat disputed ... Emperor of the United States ... Wise had John Brown executed after Harpers Ferry, Emperor Norton decreed that Wise was to be immediately removed from office and replaced by John C....

The Emperor review – Kathryn Hunter's shape-shifting brilliance

Edit The Guardian 18 Sep 2016
As in Walter Meierjohann’s production of The Emperor, which begins by captivating and goes on to skewer. The Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapuściński pulled off a remarkable feat in his 1978 book, conjuring up the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie through the memories of his servants ... She is also the servant whose job it is to wipe the wee of Lulu, the emperor’s dog, from the shoes of visiting dignitaries....

Frank talks essential over northern territories

Edit The Japan News 18 Sep 2016
We spoke to the veteran politician about the most pressing issues in politics today. (From The Yomiuri Shimbun, Sept. 9, 2016) ... Suga ... Q ... A ... Q ... Expedite Emperor’s abdication issue ... The Emperor hinted in his message at a wish to abdicate ... The fact that the Emperor has addressed the public is something that the government takes very seriously ... As is written in the Constitution, the Emperor is the symbol of Japan, and the symbol of national unity....

Clinton or Trump? The debates will decide

Edit Toronto Sun 18 Sep 2016
presidential debates are going to be the most interesting and exciting political events in contemporary politics. They’re also going to be the most important. They are what’s going to decide who becomes the next president of the United States, the most powerful person in the world ... Clinton and Trump go back at it in the second presidential debate Oct....

Today's celebrity birthdays: Jason Sudeikis, Jada Pinkett Smith (September 18, 2016)

Edit Cleveland 18 Sep 2016
Top celebrity birthdays for September 18th. . Singer Jimmie Rodgers is 83. Actor Robert Blake is 83. Actor Fred Willard is 83. Singer-actor Frankie Avalon is 76 ... Cooper") is 52 ... Trajan, Roman emperor ... ....

Skill declares War on Tuff Gong

Edit Jamaica Observer 18 Sep 2016
Alan ‘Skill’ Cole, a former manager and confidante of Bob Marley, has reportedly sued Tuff Gong and Island Def Jam Music Group over copyright ownership to the Marley song War, for which he is credited as writer ... According to Billboard, Cole hired a lawyer in May to help him transfer half of his interest in War to the family of former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie ... ....

An armless Egyptian Paralympic table tennis player trained himself how to flick the ball with his toes and hold the paddle in his mouth

Edit Business Insider 18 Sep 2016
Ibrahim Hamadtou of Egypt competes in men's table tennis at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Ibrahim Hamadtou may have lost at the Rio Paralympics but people are still talking about him as a winner. The 43-year-old Egyptian who has become a YouTube star for his amazing skills is the only athlete with no arms to compete in table tennis ... “I can't express what my heart is feeling. I'm too happy.” ... Just Ask the Emperor ... ....

Donald Trump's rhetoric is hiding a massive secret

Edit Business Insider 18 Sep 2016
Go to his website, and you’re met with vague assertions and broad rhetoric ... Go to the issues page of Clinton’s campaign website, and you’re bombarded with policies ... He refuses to release his tax returns (you can read every one of Clinton’s going back to 1990); refuses to say what he’ll do with his businesses and assets if elected ... Just Ask the Emperor....

The intricate art of Takaya Miou casts a spell at the Honolulu Museum of Art

Edit Star Advertiser 18 Sep 2016
20th Century Japanese Erotic Art” and the aesthetics of “Harajuku ... MOODY BLUES. “Visions of Gothic Angels. Japanese Manga by Takaya Miou”. Where ... Beretania St. When ... Most stunning, however, are the emblematic panels of “Brilliance,” in which Miou fuses portraiture, landscape and costume to illustrate a poetic narrative in which the emperor of the dead’s consort leaves him for the land of the living....

Teaching Nagarjuna's ‘Commentary on Bodhichitta’ in Strasbourg (The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Sep 2016
(Source. The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) ... His Holiness spoke largely in Tibetan, which was eloquently translated into French by Ven Matthieu Ricard over the PA system ... 'Dear Dharma friends, today we're going to study a Buddhist text together ... 'In 8th century, the Tibetan Emperor, Trisong Detsen invited Shantarakshita and Padmasambhava to Tibet, and so Buddhism was established there ... The Kagyus look to Naropa ... ' ... 46 ... 48 ... 73 ... 76....

China won't stop Kim Jong-un — so the US has to stand up to both of them

Edit Business Insider 18 Sep 2016
What to do with the pygmy of Pyongyang, the mad marshal of the Hermit Kingdom, by which I mean Kim Jong-un, the thirtysomething tyrant of North Korea?. On Sept ... At that point, Bush tried to get talks going on again, but it was too late. In 2006, the North Koreans set off their first atomic explosion, figuring if they couldn’t bargain away their nuclear materials, they might as well go ahead and build some weapons ... Just Ask the Emperor ... ....

Suprise Features Of The Pokemon GO Plus Niantic Did Not Tell Us About

Edit Inquisitr 18 Sep 2016
The Pokemon GO Plus device is now out and available, and with the new features we’ve discovered, it looks like it’s not as useless as it was first made out to be. When Pokemon GO launched in July, we were told that an accompanying device, the Pokemon GO Plus, was going to be released sometime soon. Now, this is coming to reality with thousands of Pokemon GO Plus devices getting shipped and being available in stores....
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