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Though it has been eight years since he delivered the Budget, George Osborne has not lost his ability to spring a rhetorical ...

Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich painstakingly collected the coinage of the House of Romanov, Russia’s second imperial dynasty, which ruled from 1613 to 1917. The history of this powerful family can be ...

We examine their history. The breathy charm of the Chinese clay flute ... It evolved to become an imperial court instrument and today is the signature clay instrument of modern Chinese orchestras.

The British Museum has received a historic gift: a private collection of Chinese ceramics valued at around £1 billion ...

This is the eighth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional ... different types of instrument, and their history. Stone, widely available and highly durable ...

For nearly 50 years, Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean has been a critical part of the American global ...

Yamato clan rulers, claiming descent from Amaterasu Omikami, begin the imperial dynasty that continues to occupy the throne today. Japan adopts Chinese written characters ... the founding of Japan are ...

“I was deeply influenced by my Shifu (teacher), Ding Guang Zhou, a seventh-generation disciple of Chinese Imperial Cuisine,” Chef Guo said. “Studying Ding’s writings on vegetarian ...

With Donald Trump’s reelection, the slide toward a dangerously empowered president has reached a moment of reckoning, ...

1891: French poet Arthur Rimbaud dies of bone cancer aged 37. 1911: The Chinese Imperial army recaptures Nanking amid much bloodshed. 1917: The new Bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of ...

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