imperial
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Working through more than 6,500 pages in Kolkata's National Library, he followed princes, generals, courtiers, royal women, imperial eunuchs and many others through tens of thousands of entries.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026
Its authors—Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, veteran White House correspondents for the New York Times—promise nothing less than to take us “inside the imperial presidency of Donald Trump.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
Dove is the bound-foot daughter of an imperial scholar who came to the city to become one of the locked-away wives of a decades-older merchant.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Of course, in the atomic age, wars between imperial great powers, as in World War I and World War II, are no longer truly conceivable.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
“He came to battle wielding a samurai’s sword against the rifles of an imperial garrison. Try to imagine that, Hatsue,” said Kabuo.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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