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British Grenadiers" (1750) ... the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are...

Sagi, p. 44. By the time of Augustine (354-430 AD), the Roman Empire had become an Empire of lies. It still pretended to uphold the rule of law, to protect...

myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this...

2017 Recent American research has shown that as early as 1880, the British Empire was producing an economic return lower than investment in Britain itself...

history to help sustain its own imperial dominion. The root purpose of the empire was to funnel wealth to be spent in Rome: in that sense it was a racket...

novelist, and political philosopher. She wrote the postmodern poetry epic "Empire of Dreams" (1988), the Spanglish classic "Yo-Yo Boing!" (1998), and geopolitical...

was the birthplace of Western civilization. The fall of the Western Roman Empire, during the migration period, marked the end of ancient history and the...

worsened with the collapse of the Soviet Empire. The spartan lifestyle that had been imposed in the Soviet Empire means that today, the peoples of that region...

reported in Dominic Livien (April 1999). "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity". Journal of Contemporary History 34 (2): p. 180. Charge of...

fulfill the charge of cruelty. James Boswell, journal entry (15 December 1762), quoted in Boswell's London Journal, 1762–1763, ed. Frederick A. Pottle (1950)...

certainty of his self-approved wisdom. Journal for Saturday, 27th November 1813; Quoted in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore (1830), Vol...

continent of Eurasia and in the Middle East. Previously part of the Ottoman Empire, it became a separate entity under British supervision following World War...

United States joined the Allies, and the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria the Central Powers (Central Empires/Quadruple Alliance). Alphabetized by author If...

Amsterdam. New York is popularly known as the "Big Apple", "Gotham City", "Empire City", "Fun City", "The Naked City", and the "City That Never Sleeps". Manhattan...

literature. Lions have been kept in menageries since the time of the Roman Empire and have been a key species sought for exhibition in zoos the world over...

independence, choosing loyalty to King and Empire over 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World...

intended to be the basis for a German world empire that would be, at the very least, a match for the British Empire. Niall Ferguson, The War of the World:...

424 There are not wanting those who say that in this Jubilee year our Empire has reached the height of its glory and power, and that now we shall begin...

media. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) Star...

important part in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. His conquest of Gaul extended the Roman world all the way to the Atlantic...