emperor

Eclipses, auroras, and other extraordinary astronomical events were sometimes considered warnings that an emperor had acted improperly.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

More than 90 percent of emperor penguin colonies could be near-extinct by 2100 if sea ice loss persists at its current rate.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

She said the group was always on the lookout for new arrivals and had already recorded the willow emerald damselfly, the southern oak bush cricket and the purple emperor butterfly, as more species travelled north.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Buoyed by a youthful sense of invincibility, they dared one another to leap, waiting for another to move, like emperor penguin chicks before a first arctic plunge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

He could be talking to a farmer or an emperor, Pinmei thought, remembering Yishan’s unbowed head the night the hut burned, and it wouldn’t matter.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

Mr. de la Bédoyère notes, in his typical way, that many biographies of emperors of this era “are blurred and unreliable pastiches of their reigns.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Skopje is a city of statues, two or three hundred of them apparently, great big things in squares and in fountains commemorating tsars and dames, emperors and warriors, royalty and revolutionaries.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Zuckerberg has shown interest in classical history, even naming his daughters after Roman emperors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

There have been eight female emperors on the Chrysanthemum Throne in Japan's imperial family, whose divine status was renounced after World War II.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

He knew the Roman emperors, which impressed me even more.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia