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Chicken for the last emperor: Nicholas II’s simple sustenance

Edit RBTH 21 Sep 2016
Emperor Nicholas II, the last Russian monarch, who ruled from 1894 until 1917, had fairly simple tastes. He preferred simple and healthy food to complex dishes — especially in the dessert course ... The emperor was known to quote legendary Russian General Alexander Suvorov, who said ... The chaser was extremely popular among the officers of Nicholas’s guard, and the recipe is traditionally attributed to the emperor himself....

Goeido prevails in key clash of ozeki

Edit The Japan News 21 Sep 2016
The Japan News On the 11th day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Wednesday, the two ozeki in the field who have yet to win the Emperor’s Cup met for a key showdown ... Kisenosato, who came into the bout holding a 24-13 lead in career meetings, started off strong, shoving Goeido to the edge of the ring. But Goeido recovered, maneuvering around the bales and returning to the middle of the dohyo....

Get tougher on use of mobiles while driving: SC

Edit The Times of India 21 Sep 2016
The Supreme Court told the Centre on Wednesday to consider harsher penalties than the existing six-month jail or a fine of Rs 1,000 under Section 184 of the IPC for using cell phones while driving ... The AG's answer was an emphatic no ... The court then posted the matter for further hearing on December 6 ... There is a nonchalant attitude among drivers and feel they are the emperors of all they survey ... From around the web....

Post-War art highlights Heritage Auctions' Fine & Decorative Arts, including Estates, auction (Heritage Auctions Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Sep 2016
The Sept ... 'We were pleased to see the number of global bidders exceed 1,000,' said Ed Beardsley, Managing Director Fine and Decorative Arts at Heritage ... The auction's $1.1 million results saw Asian works of art and decorative items perform well ... Yasuyuki's artwork is highly sought after and he was appointed as an Imperial Household artist to the Japanese emperor....

Fed’s Dove-Turned-Hawk Rosengren Leads Surprise Triple Dissent

Edit Bloomberg 21 Sep 2016
The consensus that Chair Janet Yellen has worked hard to maintain among Federal Reserve policy makers showed signs of severe strain on Wednesday ... The committee’s split marked only the fourth time since 1992 that three FOMC voters broke ranks with a majority decision ... “The chair is not an emperor,” he said.“I don’t think she can, even if she wanted to, hold these guys back.”Running Room ... The FOMC currently has 10 voting members....

​ Mulayam not ready to fade away just yet

Edit The Times of India 21 Sep 2016
The rumblings that continue in Uttar Pradesh's ruling Yadav family even after a truce was enforced last week have the clear stamp of its supremo's wrath ... Not yet," said a source close to Netaji in the current power struggle, the reference being to the Mughal emperor who was imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb ... It was also his way of emphatically saying "I am the boss." ... Stay updated on the go with Times of India News App....

Mulayam not ready to fade away just yet

Edit The Times of India 21 Sep 2016
The rumblings that continue in Uttar Pradesh's ruling Yadav family even after a truce was enforced last week have the clear stamp of its supremo's wrath ... Not yet," said a source close to Netaji in the current power struggle, the reference being to the Mughal emperor who was imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb ... It was also his way of emphatically saying "I am the boss." ... Stay updated on the go with Times of India News App....

DC Debate: The law of retaliation

Edit Deccan Chronicle 21 Sep 2016
Uri’s grim story has hurt 130 crore people of India and the country collectively realised that days of dialogue and diplomacy with Pakistan are over. The RSS, Jan Sangh and later the BJP have never been unambiguous in their reading of Pakistan. Its very creation was based on the narrative of deconstruction of democracy, secularism, and indivisible civilisational history of India ... The Army has been attacked in Uri....

NFL Week 3: Texans-Patriots — Four Things To Watch For

Edit Houston Press 21 Sep 2016
It's nice when things seem to fall into place, and certainly for the Houston Texans, the football gods have been relatively kind early in this 2016 season ... For the last four years, two of the Texans's biggest thorns in their side have been the Kansas City Chiefs and the New England Patriots ... He will have a Brissett-friendly game plan ready to go, and on a short week, the calendar is still to Emperor Belichick's advantage. ....

Hilton Debuts First Full-Service Residences In China (Hilton Hotels Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Sep 2016
Hilton Jinan South Hotel & Residences Redefines Hospitality in the Heart of China's 'Spring City' ... HLT) today announced the opening of Hilton Jinan South Hotel & Residences, marking the debut of its full-service residences concept in China ... and managed by Hilton, Hilton Jinan South Hotel & Residences is also the first international hotel in Jinan South and Hilton's 37 hotel in China....

Rare, 2,000-year-old Roman coin discovered in Jerusalem

Edit CNN 20 Sep 2016
Jerusalem (CNN)Archaeologists have discovered a gold coin in Jerusalem bearing the face of Nero, the Roman Emperor best known for playing the fiddle while Ancient Rome burned. The coin was likely struck in 56-57 AD, researchers say ... Many Roman emperors took the title of Caesar or Augustus to mean emperor ... "You can see the name of Nero, the fact that he was an emperor, and everything is there ... "The gold is also of a very high quality....

Commentary: 'Claudius' mixed glory of Rome, seaminess of 'The Sopranos'

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 20 Sep 2016
Those words were spoken on one of TV's greatest shows, I, Claudius, a 12-hour BBC miniseries about the first four emperors of Rome that debuted 40 years ago this month ... Each episode begins with Claudius, played by Derek Jacobi, as an old man and emperor, writing the "strange" story of his life. It begins before his birth, when Rome's first emperor Augustus was firmly in control of the empire....

Speech by Federal Foreign Minister Steinmeier to the opening of the 51st Biennial Meeting of German Historians (Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Sep 2016
He threatened to withdraw his support from the Emperor if the latter did not part ways with his belligerent ally, Spain. Dickmann writes that when the Emperor demanded loyalty, Munich asked - and I quote - 'very shrewdly if the Emperor wanted peace in Germany if he could have it without Spain'. The Emperor rejected the question as 'untimely' - but in the end, this was exactly what he did....
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