In three arduous campaigns, the first two of which were conducted by the emperor himself while the third was directed by Manuel Comnenos ( great-uncle of Emperor Manuel Comnenos ), the Turks were defeated in detail in 1070 and driven across the Euphrates.

She had three elder brothers, Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and the future Emperor Caligula, and two younger sisters, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.

Germanicus had two younger siblings ; a sister, named Livilla, and a brother, the future Emperor Claudius.

In 1906, Berg met the singer Helene Nahowski, daughter of a wealthy family ( said by some to be in fact the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from his liaison with Anna Nahowski ); despite the outward hostility of her family, the two were married on May 3, 1911.

Aldona had two daughters, Cunigunde ( died in 1357 ), who married Louis VI the Roman, the son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, on 1 January 1345, and Elisabeth ( died in 1361 ), who was married to Duke Bogislaus V of Pomerania.

In the center the battle was now a melee between the two mounted reserves led by the King and the Emperor in person.

Stefan Dušan, Emperor of Serbs and Greeks, enacted Dušan's Code () in Serbia, in two state congresses: in 1349 in Skopje and in 1354 in Serres.

In reality, the First Consul, Bonaparte, dominated his two colleagues and held supreme power, soon making himself Consul for life and eventually, in 1804, Emperor.

In the period immediately after 1000, two figures appeared to lead Western Christendom, the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor.

For more than two thousand years, since the time of Emperor Wu of Han, the month containing the winter solstice has almost always been the 11th month.

* 1908 – Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two

If the panegyric detailing the ceremony implied that the true center of the Empire was not Rome, but where the Emperor sat ("... the capital of the Empire appeared to be there, where the two emperors met "), it simply echoed what had already been stated by the historian Herodian in the early third century: " Rome is where the emperor is ".

There were also two finance ministers, dealing with the separate bodies of the public treasury and the private domains of the Emperor, and the praetorian prefect, the most significant person of the whole.

Nothing is known of her until in order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony ( later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ) to choose whichever one pleased him best.

After a decision decreed by Emperor Ichijō, some emperors even had two empresses simultaneously ( kōgō and chūgū are the two separate titles for that situation ).

Emperor Go-Saga even decreed an official alternation between heirs of his two sons, which system continued for a couple of centuries ( leading finally to shōgun-induced ( or utilized ) strife between these two branches, the " southern " and " northern " emperors ).

* Autokrator ( Αὐτοκράτωρ ) or Basileus ( βασιλεύς ): although the Greeks used equivalents of " Caesar " ( Καίσαρ, Kaisar ) and " Augustus " ( in two forms: transliterated as, Augoustos or translated as, Sebastos ) these were rather used as part of the name of the Emperor than as an indication of the office.

Prince Pedro of Bragança ( King D. João's older son ) stayed in South America acting as regent of the local kingdom, but, two years later in 1822, he proclaimed himself D. Pedro I, first Emperor of Brazil.

Emperor Yōmei's reign lasted only two years ; and he died at the age of 69.

After Bidatsu's death, Suiko's brother, Emperor Yōmei, came to power for about two years before dying of illness.

In 645 he ascended to the throne two days after Prince Naka no Ōe ( Emperor Tenji ) assassinated Soga no Iruka in the court of Kōgyoku.

During the reign of his elder brother, Emperor Tenji, Temmu was forced to marry several of Tenji's daughters because Tenji thought those marriages would help to strengthen political ties between the two brothers.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

On Christmas Eve, students brought out two small Christmas trees which I placed on either side of the tent.

To my great surprise and delight, when they saw the two trees they went rushing off, returning shortly with decorations from their own trees.

A tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands in 1869 washed away an entire town ( Ponoluu ), leaving only two forlorn trees standing where the community had been.

He built two huts out of pimento trees.

Even though he admired the eminent Rodin he left the Rodin studio after only two months, saying, " Nothing can grow under big trees.

In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, " After dinner … we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room … There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.

The following examples of throws may be used to better deliver a disc where the former common two throws would be impeded by obstacles ( bushes, trees, boulders, structures, etc.

The natural forests in Afghanistan are mainly of two types: dense forests of oak, walnut, and other species of nuts that grow in the southeast, and on the northern and northeastern slopes of the Sulaiman ranges ; and sparsely distributed short trees and shrubs on all other slopes of the Hindu Kush.

Some scientists have proposed moving this species out of Homo and into Australopithecus due to the morphology of its skeleton being more adapted to living on trees rather than to moving on two legs like Homo sapiens.

The gray fox is one of only two canine species known to climb trees ; the other is the raccoon dog.

The photos, taken with a cheap Instamatic camera, show what appears to be a male Ivory-billed perched on the trunks of two different trees in the Atchafalaya Basin of Louisiana.

They took on the Kips Bay residential area on the east side of Manhattan, where Pei set up Kips Bay Towers, two large long towers of apartments with recessed windows ( to provide shade and privacy ) in a neat grid, adorned with rows of trees.

* Degeneriaceae ( two species of trees found on Pacific islands )

* Eupomatiaceae ( two species of trees and shrubs found in New Guinea and eastern Australia )

* Himantandraceae ( two species of trees and shrubs, found in tropical areas in Southeast Asia and Australia )

Three species of maple trees are predominantly used to produce maple syrup: the sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ), the black maple ( A. nigrum ), and the red maple ( A. rubrum ), because of the high sugar content ( roughly two to five percent ) in the sap of these species.

Separating the two logs by a pair of sticks, called Akas, one actually increases the stability manifold with no increase in weight and with a lot less overall work ( no rocks to haul and no more trees to cut ).

Though, according to the 4th-century BC father of botany, Theophrastus, olive trees ordinarily attained an age of about 200 years, he mentions that the very olive tree of Athena still grew on the Acropolis ; it was still to be seen there in the 2nd century AD ; and when Pausanias was shown it, ca 170 AD, he reported " Legend also says that when the Persians fired Athens the olive was burnt down, but on the very day it was burnt it grew again to the height of two cubits.

Ancient trees include two giant olive trees in Arraba and five trees in Deir Hanna, both in the Galilee region, which have been determined to be over 3, 000 years old, although the credibility of the study that produced these dates has been questioned.