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Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.
Between 1881 and 1910 all Russian cavalry ( other than Cossacks and Imperial Guard regiments ) were designated as dragoons ; reflecting an emphasis on dismounted action in their training and a growing acceptance of the impracticality of employing historical cavalry tactics against modern firepower.
An Imperial misasagi or tomb for Suizei is currently maintained, despite the lack of any reliable early records attesting to his historical existence.
The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Annei is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.
The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Itoku is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.
The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Kōan is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.
The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Kōrei is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.
The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Kōgen is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.
The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Kaika is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.
) It may well symbolise his own understanding of the historical importance and meaning of his rule and of the early gaining of the Imperial title.
From the early Imperial era, some were forced to participate in humiliating and novel forms of mythological or historical enactment, culminating in their execution.
In the context of the St. Louis World Fair ( Louisiana Purchase Exposition ), the Japanese government had replicated a historical Japanese structure, the " Pine and Maple Palace " ( Shofu-den ), modelled after the Kyoto Imperial Coronation Palace of 1, 300 years ago.
Weber's 1876 Christmas presents to his parents, when he was thirteen years old, were two historical essays entitled " About the course of German history, with special reference to the positions of the Emperor and the Pope ," and " About the Roman Imperial period from Constantine to the migration of nations.
The 23 February 1923 " Red Army Day " has a twofold, historical significance ; the first day of drafting recruits ( in Petrograd and Moscow ) and the first day of combat against the occupying Imperial German Army.
The statistics of 1905 records are taken from www. statoids. com which provides a broad degree of historical explanation on the situation in the Imperial Russia.
The dismantlement of parts of the medieval ramparts led to the extension of the city outside of its historical urban planning and the new Imperial District was created.
* Gillian Bradshaw, a classical scholar, writes historical fiction set in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Duchy of Brittany, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain.
* Chauncey ( also known as Buena Vista and Imperial Mills ) is an unincorporated, mostly historical settlement on the boundary between Cannon Township and Plainfield Township where Bear Creek enters the Grand River.
Imperial historical documents and philosophical canons such as Classic of History, Records of the Grand Historian, Classic of Rites, and Lüshi Chunqiu all contain Chinese myths.

Imperial and documents
Historical documents show that, disregarding evidence to the contrary, he and his advisers believed that a revival of the Imperial House's and of the nobility's fortunes was possible, and that the Kamakura's shogunate was the greatest and most obvious of the obstacles.
A recently published book, The Imperial Cruise: The Secret History of Empire and War, documents that in 1905 Roosevelt imagined that his " international police powers " extended to North Asia.
The limits and specifics of a pronoia was recorded in an Imperial document called praktika (" records "); holders of pronoia ( the grantees, in other words ) were called pronoiarios, and those working the income stream in question ( for instance, farmers on the land ) were called paroikoi in the documents.
This last structure is of great importance as an art-historical cache, because in it are stored the utensils that were used in the temple's dedication ceremony in 752, as well as government documents and many secular objects owned by the Imperial family.
Following the tradition established by the Imperial Library, the NDL collects foreign-language materials about Japan, including rare and ancient documents, such as reports of European missionaries visiting Japan in the 16th century.
This is highly possible since Japan has manipulated several historical documents during its Imperial era in early 20th century.
The collection documents the famous Imperial Ballet's ( today the Kirov / Mariinsky Ballet ) repertory from the turn of the 20th century-the majority of which were staged by the great choreographer Marius Petipa.
Though, via adopting the Statute of Westminster and the Imperial Laws Application Act 1988, these constitutional documents as they apply to New Zealand now lie within the full control of the New Zealand parliament, New Zealand also agreed not to change its rules of succession without the unanimous consent of the other realms, unless explicitly leaving the shared monarchy relationship ; a situation that applies symmetrically in all the other realms, including the United Kingdom, and has been likened to a treaty amongst these countries.
Opposition quickly began, and leaks of official documents ( some of them held at a concealed website to avoid Freedom of Information requests ) to a local campaigning website, have shown that the principal aim of the plan, particularly once an industry partner fell through, soon became to raise £ 100 million for Imperial projects in London by building thousands of houses and commercial developments on protected countryside around Wye that has Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty status.
In addition, his discovery of Imperial German government documents advocating as a war aim the ethnic cleansing of Russian Poland and subsequent German colonization in order to provide Germany with Lebensraum ( living space ) led many to argue that similar schemes pursued by the Nazis in World War II were not due solely to Adolf Hitler's ideas but rather reflected the widely held German aspirations that long pre-dated Hitler.
The Empire's history survives long after its fall in documents such as the Imperial Canon, and in lost technologies and structures, like Possible Swords and Possible Towers, still scattered in hidden places across Bas-Lag.
The book Beyond the Blue Horizon by travel correspondent Alexander Frater documents the author's attempt to fly all the sectors on the original 1935 Imperial / Qantas London-Brisbane route in 1984.
Numerous documents dated from the 1820s through the end of Russia ’ s Imperial era which pertain to police investigations, court records and trial transcripts suggest that three commonly ascribed reasons for suicide became prominent views of the former crime within Russian society: ( 1 ) illnesses of the mind and more abstract concepts such as feelings of inner turmoil, torment or persecution resulted in many suicides.
Imperial documents from Nanyue record that princes were enfeoffed at Cangwu, Xixu, as well as local lords at Gaochang and elsewhere.
The book was criticized by Michael Scheuer, former CIA chief of the Bin Laden station, in his book Imperial Hubris for offering a platform for government leaks, which he deemed harmful to national security: " After reading Mr. Woodward's Bush at War, it seems to me that the U. S. officials who either approved or participated in passing the information — in documents and via interviews — that is the heart of Mr. Woodward's book, gave an untold measure of aid and comfort to the enemy.
This book was written gradually over many years and included critical and declassified British Imperial documents before the creation of Pakistan.
He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, Russia ( where he was also known as Afanasy Slastyon ), researched the Cossack documents in the archives of the Imperial Russian ministry of defense, and later worked as a teacher at the Arts and Crafts School ( later renamed the State Ceramics Vocational School ) in Myrhorod, Ukraine.
He headed the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Literature during the Second Mexican Empire, directed the National Museum ( 1852 ) and built an impressive collection of historical documents.
Among other documents, it contains the Imperial Ottoman firman, or decree, which established the rule of Muhammad Ali and his family, and a certificate for the Order of the Iron Crown, from the short-lived South American Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia.
Nevertheless it is counted in some contemporaneous documents among the Imperial Free Cities.

Imperial and such
During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.
Here the huge Arthur Murray organisation in America, and the dance societies in England, such as the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, were highly influential.
During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.
The Senate granted him a triumph for his efforts, as only members of the Imperial family were allowed such honours.
He helped those who had been harmed by the Imperial tax system, banished certain sexual deviants, and put on lavish spectacles for the public, such as gladiator battles.
For all their religious connotations, the emperors were not " gods " in the tradition of the Imperial cult — although they may have been hailed as such in Imperial panegyrics.
Other instances, such as Emperor Go-Toba's 1221 rebellion against the Kamakura shogunate and the 1336 Kemmu Restoration under Emperor Go-Daigo, show the power struggle between the Imperial House and the military governments of Japan.
According to very scanty information from the Imperial archives, including sources such as Rikkokushi, and Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku, Emperor Yōzei murdered one of his retainers, an action that caused massive scandal in the Heian court.
There he enjoyed the society of such eminent men as Antoine-Léonard de Chézy ( his primary instructor ), Silvestre de Sacy, Louis Mathieu Langlès, and, above all, of Alexander Hamilton ( 1762 – 1824 ), cousin of the U. S. statesman, who had acquired, when in India, an acquaintance with Sanskrit, and had brought out, along with Langlès, a descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts of the Imperial library.
Between 1855 and 1867, an outpouring of great Verdi operas followed, among them such repertory staples as Un ballo in maschera ( 1859 ), La forza del destino ( commissioned by the Imperial Theatre of Saint Petersburg for 1861 but not performed until 1862 ), and a revised version of Macbeth ( 1865 ).
Several cities such as Cologne became Imperial Free Cities, which did not depend on princes or bishops, but were immediately subject to the Emperor.
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During World War I, the Imperial Army Air Service utilised a wide variety of aircraft, ranging from fighters ( such as those manufactured by Albatros-Flugzeugwerke and Fokker ) to reconnaissance aircraft ( Aviatik and DFW ) and heavy bombers ( Gothaer Waggonfabrik, better known simply as Gotha, and the Zeppelin-Staaken R. VI " giant " heavy bomber ).
The air war on the Western Front received the most attention in the annals of military aviation, since it produced aces such as Manfred von Richthofen, popularly known as the Red Baron, Ernst Udet, Hermann Göring, Oswald Boelcke, Werner Voss, and Max Immelmann ( the first airman to win the Pour le Mérite, Imperial Germany's highest decoration for gallantry, as a result of which the decoration became popularly known as the Blue Max ).
Visiting advocates of metrication also claim that they use metric units for many things internally with exceptions such as old petrol pumps in Myanmar, calibrated in British Imperial gallons.
The Eldar also use their particular version of titans, which are often more agile and compact than their Imperial counterparts, as well as the smaller Wraithlords ( although the latter does not have a pilot as such, they are controlled by the spirit of a dead Eldar contained in a ' soulstone ').
The Imperial ( UK ) nautical mile, also known as the Admiralty mile, was defined in terms of the knot such that one nautical mile was exactly 6080 international feet ( 1853. 184 m ): it was abandoned in 1970 and, for legal purposes, old references to the obsolete unit are now converted to 1853 metres exactly.
These started with Single Stout Porter at around 1. 066 °, Double Stout Porter ( such as Guinness ) at 1. 072 °, Triple Stout Porter at 1. 078 ° and Imperial Stout Porter at 1. 095 ° and more.
The term " Reichstag " also remains in use in the German language as the term for the parliaments of some foreign monarchies, such as Sweden's Riksdag and Japan's pre-war Imperial Diet.
Many of these hit records were issued on new independent record labels, such as Savoy ( founded 1942 ), King ( founded 1943 ), Imperial ( founded 1945 ), Specialty ( founded 1946 ), Chess ( founded 1947 ), and Atlantic ( founded 1948 ).
Prior to this time clan Shinto had dominated and a codification of " Imperial Shinto " did not exist as such.
These interdicted worlds are commonly known as " Red Zones " based on the Imperial designation for such a world.
The Empire also contained several regional powers, such as the Duchy of Bavaria, the Electorate of Saxony, the Margraviate of Brandenburg, the Electorate of the Palatinate, Landgraviate of Hesse, the Archbishopric of Trier and the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg ( containing from 500, 000 to one million inhabitants ).
Most stems from the early Roman Imperial era, when Sparta offers several examples of women with the priestly title " Hestia "; Chalcis offers one such, a daughter of the local elite.

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