It seemed that sleep and night had resumed their empire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In addition to assembling the greatest empire ever seen in the region, the conquests managed to kill off most of the siblings and cousins above him in the line of royal succession. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Inka empire, the greatest state ever seen in the Andes, was also the shortest lived. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow he would begin the task of breaking down the empire of Opium. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 4-Wind’s first exercise of statecraft, he abandoned the Zapotec allies who had helped him achieve the throne, aligned Tilantongo with the Toltec empire to the north, and attacked the Zapotec. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were followed by the Dutch, who made the spice trade the foundation of a great commercial empire. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The war was called the Creation War, and the empire was called Ergen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“That man, he has no family. All he has is his empire, and so much money, he doesn’t know how to spend it.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

After landing in Peru he realized that his tiny force was walking into the maw of a powerful empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In 1917 the Russian Revolution had put an end to an empire that was centuries old and, after years of civil war, replaced it with a new system of government called communism. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Smallpox radiated throughout the empire like ink spreading through tissue paper. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In a parody of Aaron Montgomery Ward’s fast-growing empire in central Chicago, Holmes had begun selling sham drugs that he guaranteed would cure alcoholism and baldness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire," Reagan ordered the largest peacetime military buildup ever. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had left the empire after completing his prison sentence for another murder, the butchering of a rabbi’s son in Odessa. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The MacGregors ruled the land near San Diego, and the Alacrans had a vast empire stretching from central California all across Arizona and into New Mexico. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Territorial empires directly occupy territories with their armies, throw out the old rulers, and annex the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The true Age of Sugar had begun—and it was doing more to reshape the world than any ruler, empire, or war had ever done. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

To their south sprawled the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, where the empire’s rulers, as ruthless and preoccupied with national glory as so many Bismarcks, considered what to do with their soldiers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The area known today as the southwestern United States was once the northern periphery of the Aztec empire. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Why should I see an assassin as anything but a monster? I brought her here to do my bidding, not to meddle in the life of my son and empire.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Though perhaps your attitude will be useful. I’m not going to pretend that my father’s empire was built on trust and understanding. But you already know that.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If it had not been for the epidemic, the Spaniards would have faced a united empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They taught me the tongues of the Greeks and the Romans and opened for me the colonnaded vistas of those long-forgotten empires, in this, the dawning of a new empire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My father needs someone to aid the empire—someone to help him maneuver around difficult people.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Were they tending to my empire even during a social event? Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Inka army’s plan to burn down the town and prevent the invaders from crossing the river was foiled by the native Xauxa and Wanka populace, which had long resented the empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After the rise of Fertile Crescent states in the fourth millennium B.C., the center of power initially remained in the Fertile Crescent, rotating between empires such as those of Babylon, the Hittites, Assyria, and Persia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

An extraterrestrial visiting Earth 10,000 years ago might have been forgiven for predicting that Europe would end up as a set of vassal states of a sub-Saharan African empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The empire, he quickly understood, was anything but unified. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra and her sisters received the same education as their brothers to prepare them for the responsibilities of ruling an empire. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

States, though—especially so-called empires formed by amalgamation or conquest of states—are regularly multiethnic and multilingual. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The kingdoms that had been part of Alexander’s empire maintained strong cultural ties to Greece. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Arithmetic suggests that if England had been the size of the Triple Alliance, it would have executed, on average, about 7,500 people per year, roughly twice the number Cortes estimated for the empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The black man, original man, built great empires and civilizations and cultures while the white man was still living on all fours in caves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And despite the fact that the world has never seen an empire as grand or a war so terrible, both of them only live in stories now. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Alex rolls his eyes and sends back, the harrowing struggle of managing the empire’s blood money. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tribes conquer or combine with tribes to reach the size of chiefdoms, which conquer or combine with other chiefdoms to reach the size of states, which conquer or combine with other states to become empires. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the Agricultural Revolution opened opportunities for the creation of crowded cities and mighty empires, people invented stories about great gods, motherlands and joint stock companies to provide the needed social links. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seasons had come and gone; presidents in Kabul had been inaugurated and murdered; an empire had been defeated; old wars had ended and new ones had broken out. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I saw how since the sixteenth century, the so-called “Christian trader” white man began to ply the seas in his lust for Asian and African empires, and plunder, and power. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among an obscure tribe in a backwater of West Asia on the confines of a long- vanished empire? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Atahuallpa was in the middle of his own empire of millions of subjects and immediately surrounded by his army of 80,000 soldiers, recently victorious in a war with other Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The durability of the empire is compelling evidence that the assets outweighed the liabilities. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Here were even more—centuries’ worth of hidden wealth from every empire that had ever claimed this land—Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and so many others. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even after the conquistadors seized Qosqo, the empire regrouped in the hinterlands, where it fought off Spanish forces for another forty years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was primarily a storage center for crops collected throughout the empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A few thousand years ago, the idea developed that the motions of the planets determined the fates of kings, dynasties, empires. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boasting and swaggering, he vowed to conquer vast empires. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

While he, Ned, was but a jeweler in someone else’s store, Holmes controlled a small empire—and had yet to turn thirty years old. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Havel had said that people struggling for independence wanted money and recognition from other countries; they wanted more criticism of the Soviet empire from the West and more diplomatic pressure. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

With infinite complacency, men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurances of their empire over matter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They believed their only choice was to die for their empire. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once there had been hundreds of proud cities scattered through the empire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jesse knew me as a writer for Rolling Stone, Wired, and Hotwired, the former website of the Wired empire, and that seemed to be enough. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the empire trying to control trade and immigration across the seas. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Americas had two empires, those of the Aztecs and Incas, which resembled their Eurasian counterparts in size, population, polyglot makeup, official religions, and origins in the conquest of smaller states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He loved her, and no empire, no king, and no earthly fear would keep him from her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

With his passing, he evaded the overwhelming consequence of his success: the challenge of consolidating a polyglot empire unprecedented in size and comprising peoples who, by and large, despised each other. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The handful of millennia separating the Agricultural Revolution from the appearance of cities, kingdoms and empires was not enough time to allow an instinct for mass cooperation to evolve. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had defeated him—she had sinned against his empire and now would emerge victorious. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Your tribe has no women. I do not understand why Chief Powhatan brought you into the Powhatan empire. A tribe with no women and children is not worth much.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Leaders of Lawrences Berkeley and Livermore empire during the postwar bonanza, which enriched the university and secured the Rad Lab’s position as the preeminent center of high-energy physics in the nation, perhaps the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mataoka lived in the central town of the Powhatan alliance, a small empire in tidewater Virginia; she was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the emperor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A plantation owner was a kind of god or king, ruling over his empire of sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

A Persian scholar of the early tenth century, Ibn Khurradadhbih, reported the lyra to be in widespread use throughout the empire, along with organs and bagpipes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The resulting empires were administered with the aid of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The time when Kampuchea was a large empire with territories encompassing part of Thailand, Laos, and what is now South Vietnam. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esperanza’s book had opened his eyes to the horrors of the empire El Patron had built, and he had seen for himself the low, dark dwellings of the eejits that were no better than coffins. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Alexander died in 323 BC, his squabbling generals split his empire into pieces. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The moment was suddenly at hand not only to make ungodly sums of money but to build an empire, a lasting monument. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One newspaper editor had sagely, if cynically, observed that “the usual custom is for the capital of new empires to be selected by the whim or caprice of a despot.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

An early benefactor was his twin brother, Monty, who had taken over the Dallas hotel empire their father built from a single Holiday Inn and who donated a three-story Victorian in a neighborhood near Brown. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I knew immediately he was a chasqui, a foot messenger, one of the men who ran along the roads delivering news and goods to the four corners of the empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Chief Opechancanough was captured and killed, and the Powhatan empire crumbled. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Coveting the directorship as a way to build his own bureaucratic empire, Hoover concealed from Stone the extent of his role in domestic surveillance operations and promised to disband the intelligence division. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To twenty-first-century ears the story sounds preposterous, but it did not to Gonzalo Pizarro, who had already helped seize an empire laden with jewels and precious metals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After taking the reins of state, Pachakuti spent the next twenty-five years expanding the empire from central highland Peru to Lake Titicaca and beyond. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They ruled the drug empire that formed the border between the United States and Aztlan. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. And as long as that kept rolling in, the Capitol could control its little empire. Right now, it can provide neither, at least at the standard the people are accustomed to,” says Plutarch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The Ulster Scots were, for the most part, foot soldiers in the formation of the North American empire. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

When they killed him Olive declared war on the German empire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

First came Chimor, then the greatest empire ever seen in Peru. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For we discover that some of them always lived nobly and demonstrated great strength of character, yet nevertheless lost their empire or were killed by their own soldiers who plotted against them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Haiti was lost to the French, and Napoleon’s ambitions for an empire in the New World withered away. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Padma wears a bright purple dress with an empire waist that falls in a clean line to the floor. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The Library was constructed and supported by the Ptolemys, the Greek kings who inherited the Egyptian portion of the empire of Alexander the Great. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shorty’s brass balls didn’t disturb him as much as the man’s uncanny familiarity with the entire workings of the Devine empire. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To awaken them is to reveal that they are an empire of humans and, like all empires of humans, are built on the destruction of the body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Now in those days there was a terrible war being fought across a vast empire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Further north, expanding their empire in a hot-brained hurry, are the Toltec, sweeping in every direction from the mile-high basin that today houses Mexico City. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tom-Carl sat that Sunday secure in the knowledge that the small empire he had lost so much sleep building would be his when Willoughby lost interest or died. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He knew how to run an opium empire, but he didn’t think that was what the man wanted to hear. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this was the eighties, when nothing was sacred—except, of course, the making of money and the protection of glass-house empires at all expense. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, its population was about three million, perhaps a tenth that of the Mexica empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Behold your empire. Wiping crumbs from a counter and listening to the same tired jokes from your nonpaying customers.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We’re mostly talking about cute boys in our class, and only here and there studying for our exam on the ancient Incan empire. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so Matt had begun to study how the enterprise of running an opium empire worked. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the North Sea in Britain’s Victorian empire, artists, writers and composers were dredging Albion’s Arthurian roots, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Despite your visions of a perfect world under an empire, your rulers and politicians are quick to destroy each other. So are assassins, I suppose.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Territorial empires are tightly controlled but costly to maintain; hegemonic empires are inexpensive to maintain, because the original local rulers incur the costs of administration, but the loose tie between master and vassal encourages rebellion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Ares is my Greek form. But to these followers, to the children of Rome, I am Mars—patron of the empire, divine father of Romulus and Remus.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Marco Polo visited the empire of Kublai Khan in the 1280s. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Tiberinus saved two babies, one of whom went on to found the world’s greatest empire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In Ulster, they created a Protestant presence within a predominantly Catholic nation and gave Britain a foothold for its efforts to expand its empire. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And even this enormous force might not have overcome the empire if while Cortes was building his ships Tenochtitlan had not been swept by smallpox in the same pandemic that later wiped out Tawantinsuyu. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The basic history of the empire was known well enough by the time Dobyns began reading the old colonial accounts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although the empire left the original elites of conquered lands in place, it humiliated them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Its mate had been decapitated at some point, but still, the statues towered over us, mute sentinels of a fallen empire. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lanre’s allies had brought about the ruin of the last bastions of the empire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Shipments of opium had to go out every day to keep money moving around the empire. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was succeeded and perhaps taken over by a state called Chimor, which oversaw an empire that sprawled over central Peru until it, too, was absorbed by the Inka. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The king’s Asian empire, alas, proved even more ephemeral than Alexander’s: within six months all his appointed governors were deposed, and Seleucus II was crowned in Babylon. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Greek art reached a pinnacle of beauty as respect for the individual flourished in Athens, and Roman relics attest to the might of the greatest empire in the ancient world. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

The entire empire would suffer if she was offered to the Sun God, and the Sapa Inca would be cursed. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

On the journey homeward, she toured parts of her empire. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Light grey is pretty powerful but there are still some areas of the map not yet conquered by its empire. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh? Your father wouldn’t command you to marry some princess in order to strengthen his empire?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

To work the colonists’ farms, slaves were soon imported from different corners of the Dutch empire, from West Africa, Madagascar, and the East Indies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In hegemonic empires, the internal affairs of conquered areas remain in the hands of their original rulers, who become vassals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then realizes he’s soiled the magic carpet of the greatest empire in the world and says, “Oh!” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Our visitors say that within the Powhatan empire, there are tribes who are our friends, and some who are our enemies. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the much stronger and more centralized Zapotec empire collapsed completely in about 800 a.d. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They reported that they were indeed from the south, from the empire of Concordia to be exact, and they had come north to spread the wisdom of their emperor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rose to power after the death of Alexander the Great brilliant military leader who had established an empire that extended eastward from Greece to India. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s actually worse to lack all conviction. Because then you just go along, you know? You’re just a bubble on the tide of empire.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like the tourists at the solstice today, visitors came to this empire of appearances to be dazzled and awed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two Native American peoples, the Aztecs and the Incas, ruled over empires with stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Alexander died in 323 BCE, his close circle of advisers divided the empire into three regions— Macedon, Syria, and Egypt. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Was that why I fought my way out of Durango? Was that why I built an empire greater than El Dorado’s? El Dorado bathed in gold dust every day. Did you know that?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those empires were gone, leaving only a barren coastline for Sciron the bandit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Aristotelian system would outlast Alexander's empire; it would survive until Elizabethan times, the sixteenth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Before him, such a form of colonization had been used in the fifth century by the Athenians, who planted citizen estates in troublesome areas of their Aegean empire. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He started with fifty cents and had built an empire. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When the empire collapsed, the building was turned into a Christian cathedral.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As the world began to slide towards a final showdown of the European empires, this kind of music increasingly reminded people of the way of life they were about to lose. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The rich benefited from the new industry and from Great Britain’s burgeoning empire. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mithras is the god of Roman warriors! He is the god of the legion, the god of the empire!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One does not foster a lifelong love of Star Wars without knowing an “empire” isn’t a good thing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He saw past the present moment as though with a magic scope; through this special lens he saw an empire rise, grander and mightier than anything his father had commanded, even in his heyday. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1976 Edward N. Luttwak, now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, D.C., published a short, provocative book about imperial Rome that distinguished between territorial and hegemonic empires. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was of such goodness that among the other laudable deeds attributed to him is this: in the fourteen years he ruled the empire, he never put anyone to death without a trial. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the time of Europeans’ arrival in the 18th century, the Tongan chiefdom or state had already become an inter-archipelagal empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The National Party accepted the most hidebound of 1950s cold war ideology and regarded the Soviet Union as the evil empire and communism as the work of the devil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other evidence suggests they may have come a few centuries earlier; Tupi-Guarani-speaking groups, possibly including the Siriono, attacked the Inka empire in the early sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As superintendent of the Union Stock Yards, Sherman ruled an empire of blood that employed 25,000 men, women, and children and each year slaughtered fourteen million animals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This explanation was suggested by the undoubted fact that the earliest known empires and writing systems arose in the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys of the Fertile Crescent and in the Nile Valley of Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he set about to create a sugar-and-slave empire for France that would rival England’s. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He restricted his vest-pocket empire of worn, exotic clothing, false perfumes, and cheap jewelry to those places. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Accounts of African empires and the miracles of the Egyptian slaves who had erected pyramids. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They were surrounded by Inka satrapies; their economy was enmeshed with the imperial machinery; they had hundreds or thousands of people doing the empire's bidding. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Over the history of the empire, thousands of Romans had served and died in Greece. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Along the spine of the Andes the empire set up a string of a dozen administrative centers that were like smaller versions of the capital. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Much of Europe, Asia, and North Africa was the site of metal-equipped states or empires, some of them on the threshold of industrialization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Demigods like Percy were still responsible for carrying on Roman traditions in modern times—fighting monsters, serving the gods, protecting mortals, and upholding the memory of the empire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The empire was as populous, rich, and well organized as any in history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

How did Homo sapiens manage to cross this critical threshold, eventually founding cities comprising tens of thousands of inhabitants and empires ruling hundreds of millions? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Notwithstanding its decadent image, Ptolemaic Egypt was one of the most successful large empires of antiquity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

China consisted then of kingdoms with rich elites and poorer commoners, living in walled towns, and on the verge of political unification to become the world’s largest empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alexander’s empire had collapsed into bickering states, and a new power was flexing its muscles in the West: Rome. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

With the Villac Uma and the Paqo as my guides and companions, I become a third power in the Incan empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The distances between islands of the Tongan archipelago, as well as the distances between Tonga and neighboring archipelagoes, were sufficiently modest that a multi-island empire encompassing 40,000 people was eventually established. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Among island empires, why did writing arise in Minoan Crete but not in Polynesian Tonga? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And back in the ancient days, when Rome fell, the eastern half of the empire survived—the Greek half.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Just as the prophecy had predicted, the Powhatan empire was destroyed by a new tribe that arrived from the Chesapeake Bay. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Germany formed an alliance with Japan, which had a powerful military of its own, and dreams of building an empire in Asia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The empire had defensible borders, yet the vast majority of the population couldn’t be trusted in the ranks—the Macedonians had a long-standing reluctance to arm the natives. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Dresses with full skirts, A-line cuts, empire waists, sheaths, long sleeves, cap sleeves, no sleeves, V-necks and scoop necks and plunging necklines. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

This has been the usual outcome of battles associated with the founding of states or empires throughout recorded history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By 1924, when he was in his late twenties, he was already well on his way to building the Feds into his own loyal empire. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The empire encompassed every imaginable type of terrain, from the rainforest of upper Amazonia to the deserts of the Peruvian coast and the twenty- thousand-foot peaks of the Andes between. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They are a gift of God to purify us so that we can have stronger children for the empire, soldiers to keep the Irish in their place. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The disappearance of that head start can be traced in detail, as the westward shift in powerful empires. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the German dictator built up a huge military and started hacking out what he called a “Greater Germany,” a massive European empire that Hitler insisted rightfully belonged to Germans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This man was the Villac Uma, the head priest and highest sorcerer of the entire empire? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In the secret eye behind his eyes, in Ben’s true empire, he heard and saw and knew. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered back almost three years ago when Hatun left to work for the Sapa Inca, guarding and repairing the many roads that wove their way to the four corners of the empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The empire’s enemies grew thin and desperate and even the most cynical of men could see the end of the war was drawing swiftly near. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Both bin Laden and Ronald Reagan saw the Soviet Union as the “evil empire,” but bin Laden came to see the United States as evil too. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Although the portraits here are not taken from life, they hint at how the Inka viewed and remembered their leaders. empire to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They told the students that they would begin with a text as old as the Han empire, when the prescription for immortality had not yet been lost. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are best known for assembling the greatest empire ever seen in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

According to the skeptics, Maya society was divided into a small number of blocs, each controlled by a dominant city, each striving to achieve some semblance of empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had heard much of the great Incan trails that crisscrossed our mighty empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Aeneas’ descendants would be the Romans, to whom the Fates had decreed a boundless and endless empire. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We cannot go and blindly seek the empire’s aid,” the pirate leader says. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The metaphorical potency of Alexei’s illness was also undeniable—symptomatic of an empire gone sick, dependent on bandages and prayers, hemorrhaging at its core. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The proudest city in all the world was gone in an instant, its fabled empire vanished in a day, the Lands of the Long Summer scorched and drowned and blighted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Though no fan of the Inka, he conceded that “only a very small number of empires throughout the whole world have succeeded in achieving this feat.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Almost at a stroke, just 168 men had dealt a devastating blow to the greatest empire on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The other states of the cotton empire absorbed the stock; Florida and Louisiana, in their explosive growth, were particularly famished for colored hands, especially the seasoned variety. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

From the great plaza radiated four highways that demarcated the four asymmetrical sectors into which he divided the empire, Tawantinsuyu, “Land of the Four Quarters.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Peasants thus had to work periodically for the empire as farmers, herders, weavers, masons, artisans, miners, or soldiers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the one big thing he knew was that America’s future as a nation lay to the West, in its development over the next century of a continental empire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yes, my sin—my greater sin...and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran’s oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by the world’s greatest empire. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Many Eurasian states and empires had official religions that contributed to state cohesion, being invoked to legitimize the political leadership and to sanction wars against other peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Over the long years they pressed the empire’s enemies back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their empire stretched farther than even Alexander could have imagined. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Remember Napoleon’s dream of a French sugar empire and how the victorious Haitians destroyed it? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Written sometime before their empire fell, I guess. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those cases, initially so puzzling to us moderns accustomed to viewing writing as indispensable to a complex society, included one of the world’s largest empires as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marguerite warns me that he will one day use my son to fulfill his own political designs, for even churchmen long for empire. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Thousands of other empires were in tatters also, including that of the seemingly untouchable bank that had financed him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new empire would rise, with Artemis Fowl the Second at its head. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“They think about getting more, making their empires bigger, war.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

For that reason they are generally referred to as empires. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Strictly speaking, it might be said that Cleopatra lost ground, because now her empire was divided between her and her children, and Judea remained out of her reach. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But his underground empire was still there for the taking. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In 1790, however, despite the presumptive dreams of a continental empire, the Louisiana Purchase remained in the future and the vast trans-Mississippi region continued under Spanish ownership. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Bow to the greatest king in my empire!" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It's been a long slog since the disaster of Saratoga and the humiliation of Yorktown but at last the empire has struck back. David Mitchell on Brits as Hollywood superheroes 2011-02-06T00:05:59Z

“Chocolate” helped facilitate the rise of Boynton’s children’s empire, its success leading Workman to print some of her most popular board books. The Hidden Depths of Sandra Boynton’s Board Books 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Outwardly far more hostile to British colonialism than to Soviet totalitarianism, Roosevelt made clear his expectation that Britain’s empire would be liquidated. Britain and the U.S.: A Forced and Unequal Marriage 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

With bravado, humor and relentless self-promotion, he has parlayed that confidence into a business empire and an international brand, and now he claims that he’ll do the same for the country. Inside the fabulous world of Donald Trump, where money is no problem 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

His great-grandfather fought for China’s Qing dynasty against the Japanese empire. A Chinese Artist Consumed by the Idea of Inevitable Change 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The iconoclastic and entrepreneurial Damiano went on to build a small empire until his death in an automobile accident at age 62. Creating Golden Opportunities Amid Austerity 2012-11-27T15:59:55Z

And because the show covers more than two millenniums, roughly from the Paracas through the Inca empires, patterns vary widely. Art Review: The Power Suits of the Past, as Worn During Ancient Empires 2011-04-22T21:48:37Z

Not convinced the Playboy magazine idea would be successful, the first issue was unnumbered, but it would sell over 54,000 copies and proved to be the launch of Hefner’s Playboy empire. Nude images of Marilyn Monroe offer snapshots of taboo Hollywood history 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

It's evidence of what historians call the beginning of the end of Napoleon's glorious empire, which started in Russia and ended at Waterloo three years later. Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale 2012-11-30T05:03:19Z

Mr Wilson argues that inhabitants of the empire were loyal to this system—it emphasised local identities and freedoms, with citizenship based on political allegiance rather than culture or creed. Neither holy nor a failure 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

In New York and later in Italy, he began repairing and then making harps, eventually establishing an empire in Piasco, a village near Turin where spruce trees, used to build soundboards, grew in abundance. Victor Salvi dies at 95; harp maker was called the ‘lord of the strings’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Predictably in a country where skimpily clad women are a common sight on mainstream television channels, especially those owned by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset empire, the decision sparked a vigorous debate. Italian TV drops beauty contest that launched Loren to stardom 2013-07-17T19:35:55Z

Maybe the empire would not be taking second place to the Americans after all. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

They were carved between the sixth and fourth centuries BC, when Lebanon’s Phoenician civilization was ruled by the Persian empire but influenced by Greek art and culture. Ancient statues return to Lebanon as war on smuggling intensifies 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

He still oversees an agricultural empire that extends from the bogs of Ireland to China, Egypt, Germany, Thailand, the United States, Britain, Russia, Romania and Zambia, where he grows marigolds. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

Clunies-Ross was an empire builder and brought in Malay, Chinese, Papuan and Indian workers to harvest copra – they were the first Muslims on the islands. History, harmony, and the only Muslim island in Australia | Ben Stubbs 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

He has returned in recent weeks to St. Petersburg to focus on that company and his domestic cultural empire, which encompasses several stages, thousands of employees and tens of millions of dollars in state financing. Citing Ukraine War, an American Resigns From Russia’s Mariinsky 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

His father was, by then, England’s first Nobel laureate in literature and its foremost poet of empire. When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

The process hasn’t changed in centuries; records of Angkor empire life reference river-caught fish preserved in salt that was sun-dried on the same coast in the 13th century. In Asia, Tastes of the Sea 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

She is the Emmy award-winning host of Project Runway, a judge on America’s Got Talent while her business empire includes the lingerie range Heidi Klum Intimates. Q&A: Heidi Klum, model – ‘When did I last cry? Three days ago, when my makeup artist poked me in the eye’ 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

Certainly the film's portrait of embattled rural residents banding together to fight against the thoroughly poisonous coal empire is inspiring, and it's high time the rest of us joined them. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fights to save "The Last Mountain" 2011-06-05T03:55:00Z

As her online empire has grown, Ms. Gevinson has branched out. Tavi Gevinson: The Oracle of Girl World 2012-07-27T21:24:36Z

The last time we saw Jesse — after the drug empire the pair built together had collapsed — he was a scarred man speeding into the night behind the wheel of a stolen Chevrolet El Camino. What’s on TV Friday: ‘El Camino’ and ‘Little Monsters’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

She used her precocious intelligence and wit to channel the pain of abuse and poverty into building an empire. Oprah Winfrey: one of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z

In a statement, Mattel said the campaign celebrates “some of the world’s most famous swimsuit legends — like Barbie — who have gone on to break boundaries, build empires and shape culture.” Sports Illustrated’s absurd, trolling Barbie cover 2014-02-13T18:49:00Z

Things changed again in 2009, when the Festival Network ran into financial problems and Mr. Wein regained control of the handful of festivals left in what had once been a vast empire. George Wein, Jazz Festival Trailblazer, Is Dead at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

The Majestic is crumbling just as surely as the rule of the British empire in Ireland. Looking back at the Lost Booker: JG Farrell 2010-04-15T11:26:00Z

The Habsburg family ruled Europe’s greatest empire from their two luxurious Vienna palaces. Rick Steves gets lost in the music and grandeur of Vienna 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

“Star Wars” has never been indie; it’s impossible for a merchandising empire to sell out. The Growing Emptiness of the Star Wars Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

The union’s preservation depended to an extent on external threats — the British, French and Spanish empires — but more crucially on expansion. Review | Best new audiobooks to listen to this month 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Hall is one of the most distinguished historians of 19th-century Britain and its empire working today, and Macaulay and Son offers, at one level, an ideal match of author with subject. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z

In his rejection of American imperialism, he sees himself as a successor to Simón Bolívar, whose 19th-century revolution against the Spanish empire was interrupted when “the American and British empires divided us in pieces.” | 'South of the Border': Oliver Stone, Tour Guide 2010-06-24T23:25:00Z

By 1942, they began to broaden their empire, opening a branch of the gallery in New York while the Germans occupied France, and later expanded to London and Buenos Aires. Venerable Art Dealer Is Beset by Lawsuits 2011-04-19T14:48:06Z

China’s relations with its neighbors in Japan and Southeast Asia were for millenniums governed by the concept of tian xia, which held that everything “under the heavens” belonged to the empire. America’s Collision Course With China 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

During that time, 11 rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire, including the great Maria Theresa, were crowned in St. Martin’s Cathedral in Bratislava. Overnighter: In Bratislava, Slovakia, a Chance to Enjoy Local Flavors Without the Crowds ? Overnighter 2012-03-02T23:25:20Z

Murdoch took control of 20th Century Fox in the mid 1980s and built a media empire under the Fox brand that is now heavily associated with its news network. Disney drops Fox name from 20th Century film studios and Searchlight 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Gibbon’s opus was about Ancient Rome, of course, but the subtext was clear; were Europe’s superpowers poised to meet the same fate as the vanished empire? Culture is dead — again: It’s the end of civilization as we know it (and maybe we feel fine) 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

He has restructured his 16-year-old East Village dining and drinking empire, giving it this new name and making changes in several of his restaurants. Taco Mix FonteNova, With Cemitas, Tacos and More, Opens in the Bronx 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Murdoch has long maintained a desire to turn over to his children the empire he built from a single Australian newspaper inherited when his father died in 1952. Rupert Murdoch expected to stay active in Fox corporate affairs 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

At that time, the studio was rapidly accelerating plans for its DC films, which compete with Marvel’s empire of interconnected superhero movies. Who’ll Save the World? Maybe the Misfits of ‘Suicide Squad’ 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The rest of the empire can go stick it. Matt Smith on Playing the Rogue Prince of ‘House of the Dragon’ 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

After Hanoi, we moved south to Da Nang, the booming city that is the economic heart of central Vietnam, but actually dates from the Cham empire. In Vietnam, Street Food Moves From Sidewalk to Storefront 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

His family's entanglement in the great war so far away was not, it seems, a simple tale of unswerving loyalty to king and empire. Royal treatment 2010-04-18T19:00:00Z

The notion of an empire without a Roman Church, or an emperor without a pope, was unthinkable to Charles. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

As his empire collapses, the cool businessman of Season 1 resorts to desperate spasms of violence and intimidation. Why Diego Luna Took Convincing to Play a Kingpin in ‘Narcos: Mexico’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

The ones who best mine those wide-ranging flavors today never stop innovating, such as the ever-restless David Chang, who continues to search high and low for ingredients to invigorate his Momofuku empire. Urban Heights review: In Bethesda, this revival needs more reviving 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The entrepreneur and philanthropist Jean Paul DeJoria, a founder of the Patrón Spirits Company and the Paul Mitchell line of hair care products, does not use email even though he presides over a multibillion-dollar empire. The Tyranny of Constant Contact 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The worst thing you can say to someone whose empire is falling apart. John Grant: ‘Music has been a healing balm for me’ 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

The Roman empire did not have anything like federal criminal law, such as can be found in many countries today. Did Jesus think he was God? New insights on Jesus’ own self-image 2014-03-23T17:00:00Z

He writes in French, but with a rich appreciation of the history of the Middle East, and of its endlessly competing empires and civilisations. Amin Maalouf: profile 2011-03-30T11:50:59Z

The simplicity of Ma’s outfit belied his influence; since 2005, he has grown Hypebeast from a bedroom blog into a publicly traded media empire worth more than a hundred and thirty-five million dollars. Gucci Mane Among the Hypebeasts 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Over the past decade, the Green brothers have built an online video empire, with 16 shows that have collectively drawn more than 2 billion views on YouTube. YouTube Star Hank Green Will Publish His First Novel Next Year 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

The Greens and their craft-store empire have donated to the museum and to the foundation. Will money from conservative Christians sway Bible museum’s professed mission? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

The strategy game pits players against computer-controlled empires across a version of earth. 'Civ' creator surprised gamer played for a decade 2012-06-14T19:27:11Z

It celebrates diverse identities while mocking prophets and politicians, the British and their empire, and all manner of divisions and dogma. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

Adding to the empire, of course, is ShopBird.com, which was made over in September with sometimes unconventional models, including one sporting a short-sleeved floral top by Suno and fully tattooed arms. Jennifer Mankins and the Brooklyn Aesthetic 2012-12-26T22:01:58Z

The wine empire, Baron Philippe de Rothschild SA, included Opus One, a premium California estate the baron created with Robert Mondavi in the 1970s. What Baroness Philippine de Rothschild brought to the world of wine

A lion pride tries to build an empire in the Kalahari Desert of Africa by taking advantage of elephants weakened by drought. What’s on TV Wednesday: World Lion Day and Kerri Walsh Jennings in Rio 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

After appearing on America’s Got Talent and The Today Show a year ago, the family’s profile began to rise, and now they are just beginning their own media empire. TLC May Have Found A Modern Day Von Trapp Family With 'The Willis Clan' 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

One of the causes of this disparity, she proposes, is that “Americans are surprised by the direct relationship between their country and foreign ones because we don’t acknowledge that America is an empire.” A Journalist Abroad Grapples With American Power 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

They created veritable fashion empires by leveraging their names to create lower-priced lines and sign profitable licensing agreements. Halston: The glittering rise — and spectacular fall — of a fashion icon 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

China produced a highly competent state, staffed by first-rate civil servants chosen by written examinations and capable of monitoring the affairs of a vast empire. The end of harmony 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

His empire grew to include restaurants in California, Las Vegas, New York and Tokyo, and he designed menus for airlines and Amtrak. Michel Richard, innovative chef who made D.C. a capital of dining, dies at 68 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

Notably, "Rebels" is the first tangible fruit of the incorporation of "Star Wars" into the Walt Disney empire, and a Disney cartoon is very much what this is. Disney is the driving force of 'Star Wars Rebels' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

But Shiv will say anything to silence a victim from speaking the truth, possibly galvanizing other Waystar victims to come forward, and potentially take down her family's empire. On “Succession,” Shiv weaponizes womanhood 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

Beating back an empire After Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, other nations were reluctant to recognize the autonomy of the fledgling country. Americans might love Cinco de Mayo, but few know what they’re celebrating 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

Established big-city restaurateurs have taken note, and in recent years have expanded their empires deep into the suburbs. America’s Next Great Restaurants Are in the Suburbs. But Can They Thrive There? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Two centuries later the French philosophe Voltaire would mock the empire as “neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire,” but to Charles, his realm was holy indeed. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

His influence is perhaps most visible in Berlin, where he has built a vast cultural empire since taking the podium of the State Opera in 1992. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

No country has been both a republic and effectively an empire across an entire continent. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

The protagonists were patrician stalwarts of the British aristocracy who, moved by a sense of duty to empire and the old order, were intent on delivering civilisation from the Devil's icy fingers. Truly, fangs ain't what they used to be 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

I didn't want anything to do with something that celebrates the British empire ... and when you look on the other members, it's not a group you want to join. Ken Loach documentary to get first screening after 40 years 2011-07-20T17:59:47Z

This huge and multifarious empire stretched from Spain to Syria and lasted, in the West, for half a millennium. The Bizarre Lives of Rome’s Emperors 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Deployed to the fringes of an empire, they deal with unreliable local allies, irascible tribesmen and airy bureaucrats in a faraway capital. The Life of a Soldier 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Needless to say, this lifestyle did not survive the disastrous end of the war and the empire, and the whole extended family soon became what Bedford called “the new poor.” A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

He’s also created a business empire that includes his own clothing and shoe lines, videogames and films, headphones and energy shots, even his own flavor of VitaminWater. Rapper's Delight: Inside 50 Cent's Car Collection 2013-06-04T14:00:01Z

During that era, the exhibition asserts, Muslim scientists and inventors, living in empires reaching from Spain to China, anticipated the innovations of the modern world. Exhibition Review: A Golden Age in Science, Full of Light and Shadow 2010-12-09T23:34:00Z

At the point in history portrayed here, the "Limited" and the Fadda mafia are both outsiders to the mainstream economy left to cobble together their empires out of ill-gotten scraps. In "Fargo," comedian Chris Rock gets dramatic as a mob boss whose weapon of choice is the monologue 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

By then the Beasties were patrons in a multimedia arts empire that included their own Grand Royal label and magazine, setting style even when they weren’t in the recording studio. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

More than 10 million soldiers died as empires crumbled and the map of Europe was redrawn. On centenary of WWI assassination, the past still haunts Sarajevo 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Royal household staff believed the paper, part of the Rupert Murdoch media empire, could only have known about the injury by listening to the prince's messages and asked police to investigate. AP Interview: Hacking reporter says more to come 2011-07-13T21:32:08Z

He even showed a hint of emotion as he paid tribute to his father, founder of the Murdoch media empire, "who was not rich but was a great journalist." Murdoch double act wins over Parliament, investors 2011-07-19T20:28:09Z

Part of the Jean-Georges Vongerichten empire, this spacious restaurant, a study in muted glamour, is sibling to ABC Kitchen, the neighboring eatery, both located in the home store of the same name. Where to find the best vegan dining in Manhattan 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

But how often today do we turn to the art of Eugène Delacroix, whose emulsified brush strokes of gold and black and carmine cohered into such splashy, but such sinister, visions of romance and empire? Delacroix, Warhol and More Art to Look Forward to This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Actors vied to play his heroines, and he was the standby of am-dram groups all over the empire. George Bernard Shaw and feminism 2011-01-23T22:30:01Z

He called the Soviet Union an “evil empire”, which it was. The great storyteller’s story 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

We also visited many sites honoring Portugal’s great explorers, who beginning in the 15th century established a colonial empire that spanned the globe. Fado, sardines and the Age of Exploration: A visit to Lisbon 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Tammy Darvish, the local auto executive who became the face of the Darcars empire, has lost her legal bid for a share of the family business. The end of the Darcars family drama? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

It’s highly unlikely that Kylie Jenner launched an entire cosmetics empire for the sole purpose of, one day, using a silly pun to market it. Kylie Jenner announces 'Kybrow' eyebrow cosmetics collection 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

British politicians and police have also been ensnared in the scandal, which exposed the cozy relationship between senior officers, top lawmakers, and newspaper executives at Murdoch's media empire. Murdoch company to pay hacking damages in 36 cases 2012-01-19T12:48:11Z

He doesn’t want to build an empire or amass wealth or any of the usual despotic bad-guy things. What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

In the shadow of a city recovering from the World Trade Center attacks, all the way through his Bloomberg-era heyday, Mr. Somer lorded over a tiny yet influential style empire in the Lower East Side. Taavo Somer Can Make Anything Cool, Even Golf 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

While most Americans will see only Mr. Kormakur’s directing work, his entertainment empire seems as vast as a lava field. Baltasar Kormakur Directs ‘2 Guns’ in the U.S. 2013-05-10T19:33:59Z

Their mission, to create a domestic space that was forever Wiltshire, throws a bright light on the larger project of which they were part, that of running the British empire. A taste for words 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

The chef’s name isn’t attached to a cookbook, a dining empire or a Top 10 list. Review | Tortino is a no-fuss neighborhood restaurant that does right by Italy’s classics 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

But even this game of spot-the-Bard is not much help in hacking one's way through the internal conflicts of the three-headed Mexican empire. A Soldier in Every Son – review 2012-07-06T11:01:31Z

Behind the cameras, he has a swiftly expanding production empire that includes the Kardashian portfolio of reality shows. Ryan Seacrest: 'Rockin' in another year on ABC 2012-12-29T16:45:10Z

The president was born into privilege, the scion of a real estate empire. Trump lawyer Pat Cipollone was a camera-shy Washington Everyman — until impeachment made him a star 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Friends say Mr. Fieri expanded his empire with almost clinical resolve, tending to a portfolio that came to include books, knives, a winery, a line of tequilas and several shows. Guy Fieri, Elder Statesman of Flavortown 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

He now owns an empire of more than 270 bowling establishments including two newer Manhattan outposts. NYC’s original Bowlmor Lanes closes after 76 years 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Through the ensuing years, with one major boardroom battle and several straightforward acquisitions, Bernard built up what Antoine describes as “the empire.” | At Berluti, Antoine Arnault Puts Business Before Pleasure 2013-09-12T08:00:08Z

All defended their empires against independence movements in the years following 1945. Howard Zinn's last testament to the immorality of war 2010-09-23T10:00:00Z

The actor, who is Black, portrays a character of direct descent from the fallen empire of Valyria who is assumed to be white in the source material by George R.R. ‘House of the Dragon’: Steve Toussaint on Playing Lord Corlys, Boat Guy 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

And yet traditional media treats our little conference like a legitimate business event, while making a joke of a gathering of women who publish best-selling books, star on TV shows and build multimedia empires. Motherlode Blog: The Daddy Business Trip 2013-05-15T13:57:19Z

Wild parties and hot love don’t last forever, even more than world-dominating empires do. London Theater Journal: A Weekend of Hedonism and Hope 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

VF In other words, is this a new model for their empire? The Metaphysics of Kylie Cosmetics Being Sold to Coty 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Murdoch’s friend Matthew Vaughn, an English producer and writer who did both “Kingsman” movies, believes that James will now start his own empire. James Murdoch, Rebellious Scion 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

In time, Mr. Crouch said, a vision inspired him to invest in satellite distribution, which became the foundation of TBN’s global broadcasting empire. Janice Crouch, 78, a Founder of a Religious TV Network, Dies 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Over eight seasons as one of "The Real Housewives of New York City," Bethenny Frankel built an empire out of being herself. Bethenny Frankel talks leaving "Housewives," the Depp-Heard trial & her book "Business Is Personal" 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Perhaps Nicholson's awful situation spoke to Britain's sinking sense of defeat in the late 50s, with the nation progressively deprived of that empire which afforded his men their compromising chance to build bridges. Peter Mullan's Neds heads London film festival's most-awaited list 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z

Inside it, Schuyler finds “the old red hangings and tobacco-stained rugs have been replaced by a delicate gray décor with hints here and there of imperial gilt” — ornamental foreshadowings of Vidal’s preoccupation with empire. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

It contains the prerequisite galactic empire replete with political machinations. Review | ‘Dune’ is a classic space opera. Let’s talk about other great works in this genre. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

As Radhika Jones wrote here last month, “the Booker was founded on an anachronism: its criteria for selection drew on the contours of a past empire.” 28-Year-Old Eleanor Catton Wins Britain’s Top Book Prize 2013-10-15T22:46:32Z

Gonkar Gyatso, who lives in London, tackles commercialism with collages made by adhering to paper hundreds of little stickers imprinted with familiar logos, cartoon characters and other signs of corporate empire. Art Review: Rubin Museum Show of Contemporary Tibetans 2010-08-19T21:54:00Z

She was the heiress to the Hudson News empire and a former editor of The New York Post’s Page Six, who later joined ABC as a correspondent. The Debt King 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Provea, which documents arbitrary detentions of the opposition and extrajudicial killings, is an old enemy of Maduro’s government, which accuses it of being “financed by the empire.” Reviving Venezuelan Punk, the Music of Revolution 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Tom's family also prepared him to become a "public man" dedicated to the improvement of his nation and empire. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z

In the few locations where the right raw materials and fuel for the high-temperature furnaces were available, they manufactured glass in bulk and then transported it throughout the empire. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z

Horten was an Austrian heiress whose husband, Helmut, built a retail empire in Germany partly by taking advantage of Nazi policies that forced Jewish businessmen to sell their companies. Criticism of Jewelry Sale With Nazi Shadow Trails Christie’s 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

The mad love of the movie’s title refers only tangentially to their relationship, in which Mr. Bergé was the controlling force and rock on which Saint Laurent built his empire. | 'L?Amour Fou': The Passions and Demons of Yves Saint Laurent 2011-05-12T21:23:04Z

The Romans didn't seem to have a problem forging a massive empire, yet they didn't, or chose not to, conquer Caledonia. Centurion kicks off British sword and sandals film wave 2010-04-22T22:15:00Z

With no special training as a designer, Mr. Armani single-handedly built a multibillion-dollar empire in less than half a century, one predicated on his holding true to his instincts. The Man Bag Rears Its Head 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Around her, the empire was crumbling, but she was one of the last to know. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z

As children, they learned business basics and consumer psychology while doing things like hawking potatoes door-to-door and amassing a small empire of dairy cows. The art of advertising things people find gross 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Sunday's 75-minute finale showed White, played by Bryan Cranston, tie up the loose ends of his crumbling drug empire and die just as the police finally catch up with him. 'Breaking Bad' teacher-turned-druglord gets obit in Albuquerque newspaper 2013-10-04T21:03:05Z

At first glance, Lauren Santo Domingo may not strike you as an empire builder. Death of Retail? 2017 Was All About the Empire of Luxury E-Tail 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

You say something that's admittedly horribly racist, but lose your fashion empire and face going to jail for six months? The new high price of mouthing off 2011-06-21T20:11:00Z

But you mean to tell me that the testimony of one crooked cop brought down Wilson Fisk's entire criminal empire, and a sitting state senator? 'Daredevil' Season 1 finale review: King of Hell's Kitchen 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The characters implicitly recognize that empire is ending, but they experience this as a kind of internal sadness that they can’t surmount. The Books We’re Turning to Now 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Managing a Dental Practice the Genghis Khan Way, by former dentist Michael Young, offers a guide on how to build an empire in the dentistry field. Khan do attitude - dentist book wins odd title prize 2011-03-25T08:59:06Z

The following morning, my husband and baby stayed behind at the hotel as I drove to Bagno Vignoni, a medieval village built on thermal waters from an aquifer and popular since the Roman empire. Tuscany Without the Crowds 2010-03-05T03:55:00Z

At the outset of the novel, Gabriele works in an esoteric Bay Area bookshop, “which endured somehow through the early years of the Amazon empire despite its retreating margins and slowly capitulating customer base.” Intrigued by a Mysterious Customer, a Young Bookseller Sets Out to Find Him 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

Astor campaigned for a more liberal and tolerant society at home, and for European unity, transatlantic friendship and the end of empire. David Astor: The pioneering editor who loved an underdog 2011-04-02T23:09:52Z

IN THE 1580s King Philip II of Castile ruled over a huge empire. Border line 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The water-logged and frozen hierarchies of empire were being challenged by the possibility of a lighter, airborne world, where women would be equal partners in a new democracy. Jeanette Winterson: 100 years after the suffragettes 2013-03-29T15:59:01Z

Not only was the new faith gaining adherents by the day among the populace, but great princes of the empire were also rallying to Luther, and establishing his church in their territories. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

The real focus is on David Siegel as he watches his empire crumble. The Queen of Versailles: How the Biggest House in America Became a Brokedown Palace 2012-07-19T12:00:40Z

Murdoch's steady empire expansion is common knowledge to those who care to know about such things. With “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence," CNN has its "Succession" 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

They take on lads' mags, the media, the Playboy empire and advertising through marching, groups and letter-writing, which gives this a feeling of going right back to where we started with the "Libbers". Winter Paralympics: Highlights | Women | FlashForward and more | Watch this 2010-03-22T06:45:00Z

Of course, Trump’s shadow is cast over every program that exposes the bullying egotism behind fiscal empire. New old money: why hating the super rich remains small screen gold 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The story centers on a young boy named D, who witnesses the murder of his brother and eventually moves to London to build a drug empire. Sundance Film Festival 2018: 6 Films to Know 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

That befits Shakespeare's Jacobean-style drama, which is less of a tragedy than a parable of how not to govern an empire, or make peace with its enemies. Seattle troupe mounts a spooky, lean, all-women 'Titus' 2012-09-13T20:30:07Z

"It's one of the underappreciated aspects of this deal," he said, along with Skywalker Sound, a Lucas sound production company that will also become part of the Disney empire. Renowned special effects firm is "Star Wars" bonus for Disney 2012-11-06T01:12:46Z

Da Matteo is a local institution that grew from a tiny espresso bar to a small empire with its own coffee roastery, bakery and a half-dozen locations — one cozier than the next — around town. 36 Hours in Gothenburg, Sweden 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Let us consider “The Orville,” Seth MacFarlane’s latest demonstration of his pull within the Fox empire as well as the entertainment industry at large, debuting Sunday at 8 p.m. "The Orville": Abort mission, Fox! Abort! 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Winfrey's entire empire is built on the idea that miracles -- not just good fortune or persistence or community but honest-to-God miracles -- are within our reach every day. There will never be another Oprah 2011-05-24T15:06:00Z

And then there’s Tasha, who wants Ghost to continue running his drug empire because, among other reasons, she has an enviably large walk-in closet to maintain. Courtney Kemp Agboh Runs ‘Power,’ With 50 Cent’s Input 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

He explains in “The Shadows of Empire” that we are living in the “first empire-free millennium” in history and yet the legacy of these empires still powerfully shapes our times. How the Dead Hand of Imperialism Continues to Influence World Politics 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

If you want a single-volume history of the entire region, René Grousset’s “The Empire of the Steppes” ranges from the wanderings of the ancient Scythians to the last Mongol empires of the 18th century. Review | We may not be able to leave the house, but these transporting books whisk us to Central Asia 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

Maulbertsch was in huge demand in his lifetime to fresco the ceilings of palaces and churches in the Habsburg empire. National Gallery buys 18th century painting that praises Islam 2013-06-28T14:42:40Z

And again and again, empires fall and literature continues. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

Some viewers might recognize the woods as the Leiria Pine Forest whose timber and sap built the ships that built the Portuguese empire. ‘Will-o’-the-Wisp’ Review: A Prince Throws Off His Privilege 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Americans are beginning to obsess about decline, but the British long ago turned brooding over fallen empire into an art form. | ?The Hour?: Espionage in the Government and Shenanigans at Work 2011-08-16T12:00:00Z

Instead, the empires learned to co-opt the new media. How to have a pop culture hit like La La Land and Rae Sremmurd 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The Quant lifestyle empire later encompassed numerous international licenses, including stationery, paint, kitchenware and cosmetics. A Retrospective Celebrates the Queen of the Miniskirt 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

For all the depressing material, the book is lively and revelatory in identifying the connections that created and bind the American empire. Review | These three audiobooks can be your sound of spring 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Many are more comfortable seeing Putin as little more than the resurrection of a lost KGB empire. Mr Putin, Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill and Clifford G Gaddy – review 2013-05-10T08:00:02Z

After graduating, she worked for the family publishing empire in a variety of roles. Maxwell verdict bodes ill for Prince Andrew’s civil case 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

While they embodied the simple-minded spirit of empire that the new film avoids, they were also hilarious, and nothing in this new “Lady Vanishes” takes their place. Television Review: ‘The Lady Vanishes’ on PBS 2013-08-15T21:28:57Z

Instead of Gagosian, the blue-chip gallery empire that might have been Wood’s champion, her new show of unsettling figurative paintings, “Time Sensitive,” opened Friday at Michael Werner, the more traditional Upper East Side gallery. Issy Wood Met Power Players in Art and Music. She Went Her Own Way. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

The rapper's empire includes different music genres, fashion, streaming services and philanthropy. Kanye West, Steve McQueen discuss 'All Day / I Feel Like That' at LACMA 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

The newsrooms in Murdoch’s empire were salty places, and Fox would assume a measure of that swagger. The fall of Roger Ailes: He made Fox his ‘locker room’ — and now women are telling their stories 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

When he sings about “My empire of dirt”, he seems to be saying that his life has come to nothing, but we know that he can’t be right, or he wouldn’t sound like that. Clive James: ‘If I were a pop star, I’d sing like Johnny Cash’ 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

Yet no other 19th-century opera depicts, with quite such force, the power of empire to destroy the individual. David McVicar's Aida: the sound and the fury 2010-04-01T21:15:00Z

In this sly story, an aristocrat spends 30 years under house arrest in a Moscow hotel while the Soviet empire rises around him. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Train stations weren’t just transportation hubs; they became symbols of entire empires, as rulers transported their architectural and engineering know-how as far as India and Mozambique. The World's Most Beautiful Train Stations 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Centuries after Alexander the Great’s attempts to push his empire east, this style remained in currency, informing depictions of bodhisattvas — those who aspire to Buddhahood and seek to bring this enlightenment to others. Review | With renovated galleries, the Freer and Sackler museums confront their own quirkiness 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

The sheer breadth of the offering from boardroom to weekend wear reflected a mighty empire, but one with a delicate touch. Special Report: Formal Meets Sporty 2010-06-21T16:40:00Z

But he was orphaned, his family lost its wealth and Napoleon’s empire collapsed, so by the time Delacroix was a young man, he was forced to be intellectually and socially entrepreneurial. Review | In Paris, a major Delacroix exhibition that continues to explore his genius 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

A few days later, Reagan did something similar as he delivered his “evil empire” speech to the National Association of Evangelicals on March 3, 1983, the date that serves as the title of this episode. 'The Americans' Season 3 Finale Recap: Enter Evil Empire 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

As he argues, empire was emphatically neither a peculiarly British nor only a European habit. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin - review 2012-12-28T08:00:03Z

How a multinational Muslim empire was destroyed by the first world war, by a historian of the 20th century who is director of the Middle East Centre at Oxford University. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

It pitted a gang of multicultural rebels against a white-ruled evil empire, which prompted a boycott call from white supremacists decrying its “anti-white agenda” – an achievement of sorts, perhaps. Did #OscarsSoWhite work? Looking beyond Hollywood's diversity drought 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Although the city’s reputation as the seat of a maritime trade empire has long since faded, when it comes to cuisine, this might well be Lisbon’s Golden Age. Choice Tables: Lisbon?s Culinary Golden Age? 2011-03-11T19:55:00Z

The story of the empire of King David is fundamental to the validity of the state of modern Israel. Tonight's TV highlights: Bible's Buried Secrets 2011-03-15T00:05:02Z

For her guides across the universe, Reid gets three masters of space and time: the first is played by Mindy Kaling, who parleyed the sitcom she created into multiple book deals and a growing empire. After Black Panther: can Hollywood maintain black visibility on screen? 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

She started out by selling them door-to-door and eventually grew her brand into an empire. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Self Made’ and ‘I See You’ 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

He sees himself as encouraging teachers to become proud missionaries of the Enlightenment, at a time when the government wants to turn them into servile cheerleaders for empire. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z

The members of his Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company whirled all around him in restless eddies of largely nonnarrative movement, creating a perfect visual metaphor for Mr. Jones’s creative empire of self. Dance Review: ?Story/Time? by Bill T. Jones at Montclair State - Review 2012-01-22T21:59:44Z

Her reign, which spanned 15 British prime ministers and 14 American presidents, coincided with tremendous social and cultural change at home and abroad, as its empire overseas fell away. 9 Books to Read About Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The girlie-magazine empire declined and fell; and with it ended the reign of one of the publishing world's two monarchs of flesh. Penthouse's Bob Guccione: The Dark Prince of Porn 2010-10-21T08:45:00Z

Travel is a significant portion of LivingSocial’s empire: Escapes accounts for up to 25 percent of its business in Europe and 15 percent of its U.S. sales. LivingSocial and Groupon offer deals, but what if a problem arises?

China's richest man is expanding his empire in America. China mogul and Hollywood investor reaches for the sky in Chicago 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Some have wondered if Disney has already strip-mined the foundation of its new empire, stretching its famous franchises too thin. The Slow-Burning Success of Disney’s Bob Iger 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

Luther and his followers refused to concede their errors or surrender to the might of the empire. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

Thus my empire rises to greater glories, while another crumbles into dust. Digested read: A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor 2010-10-25T20:00:00Z

From the 16th to 19th centuries, European empires gobbled up territories around the world, planting their flags and building embassies, banks, hotels and roads. It’s time for a new approach to travel 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

The man whose empire once stretched from Barcelona to Hamburg said he owed his authority to himself and not to God. Golden leaf cut from Napoleon's crown goes under hammer in France 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

His long list of great, good, and otherwise notable films focuses mainly on personal morality within the context of social institutions: police departments, courts, media empires, the American economy and government: "Dog Day Afternoon." Sidney Lumet, 1924-2011: He made movies for grownups 2011-04-09T22:45:00Z

There’s a long digression about the Hapsburg prince Rudolf, whose suicide led to his cousin Ferdinand eventually inheriting the reins of the empire. | 'The Blue Flower': ?The Blue Flower? at Second Stage Theater - Review 2011-11-10T03:01:06Z

Viewers could read their own message into it about the state of the Soviet empire. Witold Starecki obituary 2011-08-08T16:41:24Z

Even the properties are named for streets in Atlantic City, home to our president’s bankrupt New Jersey gambling empire. Bad times, great art: “Ass on chair.” There is no trick to writing; there is just doing 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

She emerged from that run of episodes looking like a hero and parlayed it into an empire. From #Scandoval to "Love Is Blind," understanding the new reality heyday in this Hot Labor Summer 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z

Wish to Retire: Stick to your guns, and run your own social media empire the way you want to. Perspective | Ask Amy: Recent retiree says no to ‘friend requests’ 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

The purchase had included the rights to Star Wars and so the fictional empire would be revisited. The folly of Empire: how Star Wars menaced Hollywood 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

They were blowing whistles to puncture the picnic vibe, to signal that America was in crisis, that the empire was not maturing but devolving. Evening in America: What it felt like on Trump’s Fourth of July 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

Amazon Publishing on Thursday announced that its book empire was expanding to include Waterfall Press, a Christian imprint to “provide spiritual refreshment and inspiration,” according to a statement announcing the new imprint. ArtsBeat: Amazon Publishing Starts a Christian Imprint 2014-01-23T19:17:02Z

Speaking only haltingly in the strange American tongue, she announced that this was only the start of an empire. Life’s a beach party for Lindsay Lohan, reality TV’s queen of the cabanas 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

The death ship also turns up in many of his drawings and prints in settings reminiscent of those in Joseph Conrad’s tales of woe and tragedy on the fringes of European empire. An H.C. Westermann Retrospective Melds Humor and Provocation 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

They have a growing empire of their own that they're building, as "lesser royals," or whatever. Meghan Markle "excites controversy" — Andrew Morton on the galvanizing power of the People's Duchess 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Interplanetary wars, galaxy-spanning empires, brave men bounding toward their next conquest — all this action rests on a notion of the future as inchoate, waiting to be made. The Essential Ursula K. Le Guin 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z

Different episodes will look at the Ice Age, the city of Rome, the Aztec empire, the Industrial Revolution and so much more. Tuesday TV Picks: “Mankind: The Story of All of Us” 2012-11-13T00:20:44Z

The overarching theme is Modernism within the passing of a dominant, analog world and the rise of a digital empire. 'Doug Aitken: Electric Earth': Why MOCA's big new show has too few sparks 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

At best, this was a war of one colonial empire against another. Japan is right to be angry at QI atom bomb joke 2011-02-08T15:30:00Z

Many of the canals, or khlongs, “were made since the ancient Khmer empire and we just took them over and built on the system, and it was the superhighway of the nation,” he said. Taking to the River in Thailand 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

But the action was groundbreaking for the Vogue empire as well as the French fashion establishment, in part because of the cover line, “Transgender beauty: How it’s shaking up the world,” below Ms. Sampaio’s face. French Vogue’s March Cover Features a Transgender Model 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

We were taught about empire but not about slavery, what our grandparents and great grandparents went through. Doreen Lawrence: 'I could have shut myself away, but that is not me' 2013-04-20T22:26:39Z

It would present a historical narrative of the United States and how it became an empire. Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms 2010-07-26T20:31:00Z

Tabloid newspapers and television dramas have sharpened our appetites for horror stories about family businesses, of Machiavellian parents seated on the thrones of their capitalist empires manipulating their power-mad children like chess pawns. What’s in a Name? For These Design Brands, Generations of Expectations. 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z

The Qianlong Emperor ruled China for much of the 18th century, guiding the empire through a period of unprecedented wealth and a major population boom. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Haddish’s new goal is create an empire, though she is not sure exactly how to go about it, or if it will be in the entertainment business or what. Tiffany Haddish: ‘My Career Is a Delicious Roasted Chicken’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

As in that case, much of British commercial success had nothing to do with formal empire. A History of the British Empire at Its Peak 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Since he rode out the 1990s recession and built an empire, Mr. Marino has achieved fame more via the luxury universe than for his myriad constructions. Conjuring Temples of Deep Desire 2010-07-19T13:50:00Z

Yet, as Darwin makes clear, there was never an "imperial project" in the sense of a strategic and ideological master plan for Britain's empire. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin - review 2012-12-28T08:00:03Z

Her Goop empire sells self-care products, often at exclusive price points. When Did Self-Help Become Self-Care? 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

This effect was particularly pronounced when wars caused empires to collapse, triggering the formation of new countries and the need to design political institutions from scratch. Why Constitutions Are the Safeguards of Freedom 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Will Mrs. Patmore’s humble little cottage become the stepping stone to a hospitality empire that reduces Downton to luxury guest villas? 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Rumble With Lord G! 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

As he approaches his ninth decade of life, he might prefer to be the lord of an impoverished empire rather than a wealthy retiree. Perspective | Can Vince McMahon really share power with Ari Emanuel? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Although Morgan rightly leaves it to the audience to make the connection, you can draw a line between the glorious empire Putin yearns for in the play and his ongoing attack on Ukraine. Putin, Chekhov and the Theater of Despair 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Ivana was credited for helping build Trump's hotel empire and predicting his political rise. Ivana and me? It’s complicated: A Manhattan feminist's connection to the first Mrs. Trump 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

The FTC was investigating Jones’s empire and had called him to Washington to testify under oath. How robo-callers outwitted the government and completely wrecked the Do Not Call list 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t Austen’s chosen task to reflect England’s average life expectancy or infant mortality rate, any more than she chose to describe in detail the evils of empire, war or slavery. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Also Victoria’s Secret, the lingerie company that is the inspiration for Veronica’s romantic empire, is in financial trouble. The 90s sitcoms that should never be rebooted 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

The film points a finger directly at the greed of empire, and at the deliberate and elaborate social construction of whiteness to oppress, to ravage, to raze, to devastate, to occupy and to conquer. White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

For now, Hollywood holds that territory – but all empires fall, if they do not adapt swiftly and radically to changing circumstances. The Flowers of War fails to bloom for Chinese film industry 2012-08-02T19:00:07Z

From those modest beginnings grew an empire that at its height, after the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II, spanned 11 time zones and comprised almost 200 million people. How the Dead Hand of Imperialism Continues to Influence World Politics 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Scull expanded that into an empire of 135 cars, 400 drivers, and a lucrative taxi insurance business. At Acquavella Galleries, Robert and Ethel Sculls? Legacy of Pop Art 2010-04-09T23:33:00Z

“Another use of yogurt popular in the Arab empire was kamakh rijal, which was yogurt and salt left to bake in the sun,” he writes. A History of Everything, Served in a Cold Glass of Milk 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Installed in a prime position in the Basilica di San Marco, which at that time was the official church of the Venetian state, it became a de facto symbol of the city and its empire. Art Review: The Enduring Power of an Icon 2011-03-31T21:48:50Z

What the United States has now is a “pointillist empire”: specks of land scattered around the world that have served as military bases, staging grounds, detention facilities, torture sites. ‘How to Hide an Empire’ Shines Light on America’s Expansionist Side 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

But when compared with an MMA empire worth billions of dollars, the reward for individual fighters can seem minuscule – especially when taking into account the mental and physical toll of the sport. The rise of female UFC fighters obscures profound exploitation, inequality 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

Horten started his retail empire in the 1930s under the Nazi policy of Aryanization, when Jews were pressured or forced to sell their businesses at steep discounts. Criticism of Jewelry Sale With Nazi Shadow Trails Christie’s 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

Lucious refuses to accept Jamal, while Cookie is determined to prove that an out gay black man can not only be a star but also run the empire. 'Empire': Inside Fox's Ambitious, Groundbreaking Musical Soap 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Seth MacFarlane of the Family Guy empire serves as executive producer. Blunt Talk: Patrick Stewart's new show is duller than it should be 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

For a child of empire — raised in British-governed Cairo — the writing was personal. Review | ‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ explores the full spectrum of sources that shaped the scholar’s ideas 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Her growing empire now included fashion and fragrances. Gwen Stefani Climbs Back From the Abyss 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

So why would he and his wife, Justine Simmons, hang up the keys to their reality empire, if only temporarily, to veer into comedy? Rev Run Closes a Door on Reality but Opens Another (With a Laugh Track) 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

We are in the early centuries of the larger Byzantine empire, and themes from antiquity — Dionysian revelers, Herculean hunters — are still present in many secular objects. Art Review: ?Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition? at the Met 2012-03-15T23:06:56Z

Less than a year later, on September 11, 2001, the empire began its long slide down the mountain. From "Gladiator" to "Nope": How Jordan Peele maps our decline into spectacular denial 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

Between classes, at lunch, during study hall, he would keep his social media empire running with new images and videos. Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

The country today is what remains of a once-ancient empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea in the first century B.C., before it was conquered by the Romans. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

In his masterly retelling, Mr Wilson paints a more nuanced picture of the empire as a stable and unique entity that protected the weak. Neither holy nor a failure 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were in decline before the first world war; the US, Germany and Russia were on the rise. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

"My sense is that Murdoch carved his empire into two companies to protect his newspapers," Cole said. Rupert Murdoch expected to stay active in Fox corporate affairs 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

Yet the end being nigh feels different now – hints of a dwindling empire are everywhere. Over the hills: Quentin Tarantino and the end of Hollywood as we know it 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Almost all accept that the high tolls that the Turks charged on caravans bringing Asian luxury goods through their empire encouraged Europeans to build better ships and find maritime routes to India. When the Ottoman Empire Threatened Europe — and the World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

The Savannah-based celebrity cook announced Wednesday that she's launched an umbrella company that will oversee her restaurants, cookbooks, product endorsements and other remaining slices of her media empire. Paula Deen cooks up $75M comeback deal 2014-02-13T01:27:19Z

“If you make a film criticizing the most powerful man in the world,” he says, referring to his 2012 documentary, “2016: Obama’s America,” “expect the empire to strike back.” Review: In ‘Hillary’s America,’ Dinesh D’Souza Warns of a Plan to ‘Steal’ the Country 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Widely loved, the longest-serving first lady was on the right side of history on virtually every subject, including civil rights, acceptance of European refugees and the need to end empires. Ahead of her time 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The Palins Ensure They Stay in the News For the booming media empire, this week is the busiest to date. The Palins Ensure They Stay in the News 2010-11-23T22:36:00Z

“There is a kind of exceptionalism that empires produce and make seem virtuous that smaller countries, depicted as the ‘threatening nationalists’ on the border, are denied. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

For weeds that build underground empires, the answer is persistence. Why I don’t need Roundup in my garden 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

In the spirit of Legoland and Las Vegas, he re-created famous structures from around the world, producing a kind of diorama of his empire. Tivoli: Still Rome’s great escape after 2,000 years 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Message to Isabella, now the overseer of a restaurant empire that includes multiple Greek dining rooms and a stellar sandwich shop, G by Mike Isabella: She’s cleaned up her act, she swears. Smoked and Stacked review: A chef packs passion into her sandwiches 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

But Britain has seen off the Romans, been ruled by Tudors and Stuarts, built and then lost an empire, and fought all the way through two world wars. Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – from Oscar-winning strategies to 007’s debt to Hitchcock 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

Her clothes, hair and makeup are more lavish than Mary’s — Elizabeth’s kingdom is an expanding empire — and her freedom of action more severely constrained. ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Sexy, Spirited and Almost Convincing 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Tens of thousands of Jews were given refuge in Muslim North Africa and the Ottoman empire. The Arabs and the Holocaust by Gilbert Achcar 2010-06-25T23:09:00Z

The empires were like tigers, which even when threatened with extinction will not co-operate. Blindly over the brink 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

He closed several restaurants and sold his restaurant company, but he remains chief culinary officer of the company that purchased his empire. New food market in Northeast will serve up the flavors and culture of Latin America 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

The printed piece contained many boasts from Guzmán about his empire. Sean Penn on El Chapo interview: 'I have a terrible regret' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Catherine continued the modernising work of her predecessors, and expanded the Russian empire. Delving in to the Russian classical archive 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

He is a great observer of wealth and brittle glamour in an age of empire. A matter for the Academy 2010-07-13T10:40:00Z

It was the New York City stop on her “Revival” tour, which is named after the album she released last year, her first one outside the Disney empire. Review: Selena Gomez, a Disney Graduate, Majors in Angst Onstage 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

This was an about-face from a company that had built an advertising free, on-demand television empire. Ads are coming to Netflix soon – here’s what we can expect and what it means for streaming 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

His celebration of this American empire is soaring and sincere — “the second home of every free person on the planet” — and often incomprehensible, laced with name-dropping digressions, circuitous analogies and mixed metaphors. New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The tabloid is printing its last edition Saturday after the Murdoch empire shut it down over an expanding phone-hacking scandal. Britain's News of the World publishes final edition 2011-07-09T23:40:04Z

Notions of empire and the end of empire resonate in the narrative, of course. Centurion kicks off British sword and sandals film wave 2010-04-22T22:15:00Z

The Le Domas family, a detestable group of scions to a vast fortune built on a board game empire, keep up a peculiar tradition when one of their own gets married. Rich territory: how class warfare is taking over the multiplex 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Between her talk show, magazine, book club and overall empire, Winfrey’s star power was near its peak. An underwhelming end to Oprah’s Dr. Oz drama 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Its empire was under attack from Ida Tarbell, an American investigative journalist whose father had been ruined by Rockefeller. Guts, greed and gushers 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

The designer is too busy searching for new challenges, whether it’s dressing Lady Gaga for the Grammys, designing a hotel in Dubai, or expanding his empire deep into China. Giorgio Armani: The Making Of An Empire 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

With the deal certain to transform the entertainment industry landscape, regulators are attaching conditions to prevent Comcast Corp. from trampling competitors once it takes control of NBC's vast media empire. Comcast wins FCC approval to take over NBC 2011-01-18T19:22:25Z

For nearly four years now, Rihanna has been a musician focused on everything but music: She’s building an empire, making movies, falling in love. Instead of a New Album, Rihanna Drops a Book 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

It was only as the British empire expanded in the 19th century that exotic animals from across the world started to be included in circus routines. Circuses remove last of the big cats from UK's big tops 2013-02-10T00:05:47Z

It's been taken up by the old empire subjects from Jamaica and it's supposedly quite regal from the context my parents were using it. Roots Manuva: 'My whole career is just like a massive mistake' 2013-01-24T15:36:00Z

I was ready to build an empire with someone.” The Mating Game 2010-10-22T22:20:00Z

Gawker.com, the crown jewel of Denton’s former empire, will go back into Gawker Media’s bankruptcy estate, its value effectively zero, said Jude Gorman, general counsel of Reorg Research, a financial data company. Gawker.com, brash and breezy Internet mainstay, to shut down 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

She might become the head of the $2 billion foundation empire or make her own run at elected office. Chelsea Clinton steps into the spotlight — on her own terms 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

And the three bands of text — classical Greek, hieroglyphs and an Egyptian shorthand called Demotic — were intended to proclaim the monarch’s achievements in multiple tongues to the peoples of the empire. The 20-Year Contest to Crack the Code of the Rosetta Stone 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Gabrielle Union: Well, I didn’t look at the Housewives — she’s written as having created this empire off of her show with her sisters. Gabrielle Union: 'Bring It On' Cheers Come Back Like 'Muscle Memory' 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Imposing such a definition of sin on human beings is one of the biggest hammers in the ideological toolbox of empire that Christianity was born to dismantle. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

His Cuban sugar business supplied his chocolate empire, sent molasses to the rum factory up the road, and sold sugar to Coca-Cola. Sweet on Cuba: riding the Hershey town train 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

One running theme of the series is the guests’ vocal eagerness to humble themselves before Beyoncé and her empire; DJ Khaled tells an anecdote that doubles as an ace performance of cozy obeisance. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Alone, unable to move but also unable to keep her memories at bay, J. A. thinks back to her many years of running the McCullough empire. Books of The Times: ‘The Son,’ a Novel by Philipp Meyer 2013-06-19T21:01:43Z

Many of Kelly’s draconian tendencies in running an empire headquartered in custom mansions and music studios were detailed by a former employee named Tom Arnold. Scenes from Week 2 of the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

I tucked into a booth, already overwhelmed, preparing for a long night in the afterlife of Eminem’s cultural empire. One Night at Mom’s Spaghetti 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

The fun irony is that the feckless Commodus has brought the gladiators to Rome as a bread-and-circuses initiative to distract the great unwashed while he seizes total authority over the empire. Did Gladiator really deserve the best picture Oscar? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

It was an empire built almost entirely on celebrity. Tyler Florence: No more taking success for granted 2012-12-07T17:24:09Z

In the space of 40 years, Tudor had built an ice empire, block by block, earning him the moniker the "Ice King." The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Nor were they citizens of an empire, the Ottoman, intermittently at war with Venice. Hidden secrets 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

A maitre'd of the globe as much as a chef, he built an empire out of his comportment, a charismatic freewheeler who'd cut his teeth in New York kitchens. Chasing Anthony Bourdain’s “perfect little things”: Kitchen work and what I hungered for 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

One British minister described child migration as necessary because "the British empire is the only hope for the preservation of world civilisation". Oranges and Sunshine wasn't just a false promise 2011-04-05T09:18:00Z

And then there’s the blueprint to expand the Russell family’s literary empire. ‘Dork Diaries’: The book empire built one awkward moment at a time 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

"There are armies, legions, empires of the ill, the frail, the failing; it is the dark side of the moon we call being human." The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit – review 2013-06-08T13:00:01Z

Blessed by a goddess, she lives nearly 240 years, long enough to witness the rise and fall of her empire in southern India, but her lasting legacy is an epic poem. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

After the break-up of the Ottoman empire, Atatürk ousted the hated Greeks from Istanbul and transformed the city into a westernised outpost supposedly free of Islam's influence. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-04-28T07:00:01Z

With her lace collar, delicate necklace and elegant empire gown, the sitter in Johnston’s “Lady on a Red Sofa” is clearly dressed to the nines. Bill Cosby’s Art Collection Joins African Art at Smithsonian 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

More than two centuries ago hunted them as outlaws and traitors across its south American and Caribbean empire - a pursuit that often ended in capture, torture and execution. Spain celebrates Latin American liberation with bicentenary films 2011-03-14T19:27:41Z

On the campaign trail, Steyer is careful to differentiate himself from Trump, saying he built a business from scratch, while Trump was the scion of a wealthy real estate empire. Tom Steyer wants to ‘save the world.’ First he’ll have to save his campaign. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Once the empires tumbles, as it inevitably must, what then? "On Becoming a God in Central Florida" exposes unfettered capitalism as a rigged and failing game 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z

A successful horror movie will spawn its own miniature branching cinematic empire that drags on for a decade until everyone dies of boredom, given half a chance. Happily never after: why we don't need romantic comedy sequels 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

In exchange for his service to the empire, he wants a little time off – those fields ain’t gonna harvest themselves, you know? Did Gladiator really deserve the best picture Oscar? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

But weakening empire, worldwide political alienation, diminished standards of living and growing inequality – these things that characterize the political landscape in 2012 have understandably provoked feelings of fear. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

In an era of historical productions that romanticized wealth and, inadvertently, empire, “Mansfield Park” was refreshingly complex. How Not to Adapt “Anne of Green Gables” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

To know we were strong and that after only six days we had become an empire. David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z

Even the title, which refers to the Spanish conquistador who demolished the Aztec empire, speaks of feverish ambition. The shock, critique, theatricality of '80s art, on view in Fort Worth 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

From there, she oversees an empire spanning 70 countries, filling bathroom cupboards in cities, towns and villages across the globe. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

From Jehovia and the Vine, Divine borrowed the traits that would define his spiritual empire and would later be copied by Jones into the doctrinal architecture of Peoples Temple. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

In this new Paris season, which is seeing the revival of the Schiaparelli label as part of the Tod’s empire, will fashion history repeat itself? Battle of the Champions 2012-09-26T16:12:13Z

It was a legacy of the British empire. Small Island by Andrea Levy 2011-01-22T00:06:13Z

In Gangster Squad, something of the west coast's awe of the evil eastern empire has seeped on to the screen. Gangster Squad reflects the west coast's fear of the east 2013-01-07T17:25:58Z

As the novel begins, Ellen Adams, the former proprietor of an international media empire, has been improbably appointed U.S. secretary of state by Douglas Williams, the condescending president whose candidacy she had opposed. Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny Deliver a Page-Turner Part Sly, Part Sweet 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Perhaps they are souvenirs of empire, or warnings that empires fall. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-14T23:38:13Z

Cole goes as far as rejecting some of the violent episodes attributed to the Prophet Muhammad as later fictions by belligerent Muslim empires. Illuminating Islam’s Peaceful Origins 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

The group is part of the sprawling financial news and information empire controlled by Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York. 2016 campaigns are beefing up staffs. So are the media who will cover them. 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

The American empire, over by the 1980s - precise date, Sept. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z

Seacrest, 37, is building a media empire through his own production company. Exclusive: Seacrest looking at Dick Clark Productions: sources 2012-06-15T16:46:39Z

It's now routine -- even among conservative commentators -- to describe the United States as an empire, so long as everyone understands we are an inherently benevolent one. Thanksgiving? Instead, let’s atone for the genocide that was committed 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

We were not in the seat of the film empire, we were way under the radar. James Gandolfini remembered by The Sopranos creator David Chase 2013-06-26T17:47:50Z

Today, Ferragamo is one of the world's biggest fashion empires- spanning leather goods, watches, perfumes and ready-to-wear for men and women. Fashion spotlight shines on Ferragamo's Giornetti 2012-06-15T11:22:09Z

Piper, as her panty empire grows, is petrified of being perceived as weak by her employees, so she heartlessly fires Flaca for organizing the labor force against her. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3, Episode 11 Recap: Angry Caputo 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

In the first years of the 16th century, the Republic of Venice was buffeted by wars with the Ottoman empire and the papal states. | 'Palladio and His Legacy': ?Palladio and His Legacy? at the Morgan Library 2010-04-08T22:16:00Z

If she really bothered us half as much as we claim she does, we’d look away and stop feeding her empire.  Celebrity moms make me feel better about myself 2013-09-05T22:59:00Z

By the 1980s, Mr. Sassoon, whose impoverished mother was forced to put her sons in an orphanage for seven years, had built a global hairdressing empire. Saying Farewell to Vidal Sassoon 2012-10-15T13:58:47Z

Their contacts throughout Venice’s trading empire brought them marbles and bronzes from the mainland and islands of Greece, Constantinople and Asia Minor. Special Report: Museums: Reopening of Palazzo Grimani Revives Memory of Creator 2010-03-16T20:00:00Z

With the Lees in crisis, “Our empire is not an empire,” the man laments. Samsung: The Tech Monster That Conquered the World 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Yoo's daughter, who ran one of the companies in the sprawling business empire, was arrested in France, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said. South Korea offers half-a-million dollar reward for ferry operator owner 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Seeing the effect that had on their lives and their household, you can’t help but feel that maybe the germ of the Kardashian empire was planted at that moment. How the OJ Simpson Bronco Chase Affected the Kardashian Kids 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

He sat at the top of an empire, and it all came down in one fell swoop. Peter Gatien, the Fallen King of Night Life 2011-09-21T21:47:19Z

The “Magic Mike” empire, too, has proved remarkably universal. Channing Tatum on ‘Dog,’ ‘Magic Mike,’ Marvel and his hiatus 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

His television empire, which remains a dominant force in Hong Kong, was where stars like Chow got their first breaks. Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw dies 2014-01-07T14:02:11Z

And Ticketmaster, part of the Live Nation empire, still tickets 80 of the top 100 arenas in the country. Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

In some cases it is formal empire, but it is also British command of capital and trade routes, what historians call free trade imperialism. ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

The last of the five empire paintings is “Desolation,” which is a Byronic landscape of picturesque ruins and encroaching greenery, ready for a solitary walker. Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

There’s also extra fun to be had by viewing it as a sort of Waluigi version of “Succession,” consumed with internecine family strife and an aging patriarch’s hold on his empire. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

Regrettably, with the fall of the empire, this “Versailles of Ancient Rome” was first plundered by barbarians and then by Renaissance big shots, who all wanted something classical in their courtyards. Tivoli: Still Rome’s great escape after 2,000 years 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Elite Romans comprised less than half a percent of the empire's population of some 50 million. Invisible Romans by Robert Knapp – review 2013-02-15T17:51:01Z

An investigation published by The Times this week revealed wealth that President Trump received from his father’s real estate empire over decades. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Trump and Taxes’ and ‘Pyewacket’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

They live in the terrible wasted lands of the empire, somewhere between Albania and Istanbul, where everything that is theirs, down to their language and their legends, has been erased. A Grisly Fable of Ottoman Albania 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The military power and economic might were elsewhere, in an Asian world of empires ancient, potent and working at a level of intellectual sophistication the West had not yet dreamed of. A Rich, Old-Fashioned Spy Thriller Set in Elizabethan England 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

“Having Russia and America — these two giant empires — under your belt, as a writer, you can’t ask for anything better,” he said. A Wayward Son Checks in With Mother Russia 2010-10-24T23:06:00Z

He was identified as Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, founder of a publishing empire that bears his name, and one of the richest men in Italy. Gruff Rhys: my musical take on the communist Forrest Gump 2013-05-01T18:30:02Z

The themes pivoted from mythology to Roman history: specifically scenes of patriotism in the early republic, which he preferred to the decadent empire. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

But then Marvel Studios struck gold with the first Iron Man movie in 2008, which became the bedrock of what would be a massive, character-driven empire. Here’s Why Hollywood Will Never Stop Making Spider-Man Movies 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

He built an empire based on caravaning — that’s what Australians call the popular pastime — and then invested in cycling, thoroughbreds, wine, soccer, basketball, technology and art. Four Musicals on Three Continents: An Australian Company’s Big Bet 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

A publicity-shy bricklayer’s son, the elder Moores went on to found the Littlewoods empire in soccer betting, mail order and retail. Peter Moores and His Campaign for Opera in English 2010-08-22T01:53:00Z

As you watch “My Perestroika,” the similarities are striking between the anti-United States propaganda of the old Soviet Union and America’s use of terms like “evil empire.” | 'My Perestroika': Through the Looking Glass of History 2011-03-22T23:12:14Z

Queen Anne and the birth of an empire The Queen Anne portrayed in “The Favourite” is physically and mentally a mess, which isn’t entirely inaccurate. The real women of "The Favourite" included an 18th-century Warren Buffett 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

It doesn’t aestheticise its subject, however, but rather evokes the power of words to make sense of horror and to cut through the bombast of empire. Berlin film festival 2016 roundup: serious gems and stylish risks 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

The Wizard is just a regent; this empire has a Queen. Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z

At “Winged Victory of Samothrace,” a white marble statue from Hellenistic Greece, better known as “Niké,” for example, Ms. Firestone noted that the figure’s wings had inspired the sportswear empire’s Swoosh logo. The Art of Drinking? Right This Way, S’il Vous Plaît. 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

To paraphrase a writer from another collapsing empire. | Soigne K : Cue the Sitar, Cast the Petals 2010-12-01T20:25:00Z

They are designed to complete the narrative of domination of empire and control. Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

For Bozzi, 52, being the gay son of an Italian Catholic immigrant family that built an empire on a tough-guy steakhouse that started as a speakeasy during Prohibition was anything but simple. For the heir to the Palm steakhouse empire, nostalgia is a plate of fancy chicken nuggets 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

All the while, two members of Clinton's managerial inner circle began surreptitiously grabbing pieces of his funk empire. George Clinton's funk chronicle, 'Brothas Be, Yo Like George' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

As well as chronicling what he saw as its achievements Ferguson posited that with empire, Britain founded global "liberal" capitalism, withdrawing altruistically from its territories when the fruit was ripe. Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z

In an unusual, brief statement, James and Kathryn Murdoch voiced their “frustration” this week with what they see as the Murdoch family empire’s role in climate change denial. Murdoch family discord plays out publicly 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

And why European luxury groups, which have built their empires on the reinvention of heritage brands, have not been able to make the same strategy work in the United States. What Is ‘American Fashion’ Now? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

America was ostensibly founded on freedom, democracy and equality for all, but those ideas are difficult to reconcile with the dominant race committing genocide, settler colonialism, and empire. HBO's doc "Exterminate All the Brutes" asks: "When was American great — and who was it great for?" 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

She refers to herself as the “Spiritual Catalyst” and her ambitions include building a global empire based on self actualization and related concepts. Teal Swan, a glam guru for the YouTube Age with controversial views on death 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Over the next eight years, he towered over the political landscape, built an American empire, and through sheer force of personality bent the political world to his will. 'Colonel Roosevelt': Edmund Morris' superb account of Teddy Roosevelt's final, feisty years 2010-12-22T22:06:14Z

They say that all great empires expand until they reach a point where they can no longer sustain their own weight, at which point they crumble. Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe getting too big? 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Four centuries later the Egyptian empire collapsed; a dark age followed. Art Review: Partnerships and Power Shifts Between Two Mighty Lands 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z

Speaking of dual realities, in Season 2, Ghost finds out Angela Valdes works for the federal government task force that could crumble his entire drug empire. Omari Hardwick on Taming His Drug Kingpin Persona on ‘Power’ 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

It was also prophetic: the following year, millions of young men would be sent off to battle, sacrificed in the name of God and empire. The Rite of Spring at Sadler's Wells: 'It takes you to so many places' 2013-04-03T17:30:01Z

I lingered on the Palatine for half an hour, trying to conjure the nerve center of an empire from its ruins. Rome, Through the Eyes of Flavius Josephus 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The 89-year-old Detroit native built Motown Records into a hit-making music, film and television empire that shattered racial barriers and introduced the world at large to the sounds of R&B, soul and funk. Motown mogul Berry Gordy announces retirement at 89 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Known for striding on stage as if she’d arrived to reclaim her empire, she demanded the undivided attention of her public. On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Bombshell is the latest in a series of films and TV shows targeting the Murdoch empire. Why films such as Bombshell aren’t hitting their right-wing media targets 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Like an endlessly regenerating Hydra, the Kardashian empire continues to amaze and terrify with its ability to do so much with so very little. "Kourtney and Kim Take New York": One long commercial 2011-01-24T17:01:00Z

The billionaire developer stripped away the remnants of Guccione’s failed project and set about planning to expand his own casino empire. The time Donald Trump’s empire took on a stubborn widow — and lost 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

The expulsion of the Jews in 70AD, after a failed uprising against the Roman empire, has played a central role in Christian and Jewish theology. TV highlights: 25/4/2013 2013-04-25T06:01:07Z

An astute businessman with an eye for vibrant color, Mr. de le Renta polished his eponymous label into a global empire that sold perfume, accessories, furniture and, above all, elegant clothing. Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer, dies at 82

He shows that “territorial empire” hasn’t been just an aberration but an inextricable part of the country’s fabric, woven throughout. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

He is, the series hypothesizes, Vanderbilt, and he certainly helps lead the country into the industrial age by creating a railroad empire. Television Review: ‘The Men Who Built America,’ on the History Channel 2012-10-15T21:45:53Z

But Rubinstein’s fortune was entirely self-made: she was born in a Polish shtetl, in 1872, and parlayed a recipe for homemade face cream into a global cosmetics empire. Doll’s Play 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

It also became clear, however, that this writer/director/producer was up against more than the Roman empire. David West Read Visits Vegas for ‘The Performers’ 2012-10-21T03:07:23Z

Whoever owns it, the Playboy empire is unlikely ever to regain its former glory or influence. How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z

This is an empire no longer expanding or fracturing but greedily staking its claims on every last acre. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are back — and all growed up 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

One almost has to feel a little sorry for Cathy and his Chik-fil-A empire now – the whole thing has blown up like a packet of buttermilk dressing in a microwave. Chick-fil-A starts a culture war 2012-07-23T21:20:00Z

“I didn’t get enough time with him when I was growing up, he was working a lot, that was his focus, building his empire, building his wealth through real estate,” she said. Lady of the Lakers 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

There’s Stephen K. Bannon, who built a right-wing website into a thriving media empire by raging against the so-called elites he used to hobnob with; he’s set to become senior White House adviser. How America became a grudgeocracy 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Today, Costas Spiliadis, 72, who says he arrived in this country “nervous, scared and totally intimidated,” owns and operates an international dining empire, with restaurants in Montreal, New York, Athens, Las Vegas, Miami and London. Tough on Others, Tougher on Himself: The Perfectionist Behind the Milos Restaurants 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Eventually, Ms. Lee turned that thriftiness into a business: first with a curtain line started in the bedroom of her aunt and uncle’s house and later with a QVC show, and eventually, a cooking empire. Sandra Lee Has Her Own Message for America 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Immediately, the once-thriving empire of restaurants that Mr. Friedman and Ms. Bloomfield built as partners began to disintegrate. The Spotted Pig, Where Employees Were Sexually Harassed, Closes 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

When the British of that time talked about empire, they meant Ireland and nothing much beyond the British Isles. Pirates, Runaways, Smugglers and the Occasional Aristocrat 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Thin belts are worn right below the bustline, suggesting an empire waist. Missoni goes urban nymph for next season 2012-02-26T23:16:04Z

If the studio, indeed, attempts to faithfully re-create Gene’s empire, let’s hope it has legitimate insurance. Review | ‘Action Park’ looks back at one very dangerous amusement park 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Suffice to say, this spinoff from the story of a magical kingdom besieged by an evil empire is too ludicrous for words. Review: ‘Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV,’ Where the Bad Guys Sport Silly Hats 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The story of the Egyptian queen and her lovers Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony is filled with power struggles, sexual manipulation, warring empires and passionate love. Cleopatra reborn 2011-02-24T10:41:18Z

Pics/Everett/Rex Features It's been widely remarked that The Social Network isn't about social networking: it's about the genesis of any kind of empire. Life Zucks 2010-10-18T10:21:00Z

The fall of the Roman empire meant the end of its mass production, but the art of the fish sauce was not lost in Italy. Garum sauce: ancient Rome's 'ketchup' becomes a modern-day secret ingredient 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

The Banat, the region where Müller was born, was a German-speaking enclave of the Austro-Hungarian empire split between Romania and Yugoslavia after the first world war. Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z

Then there is her hearty dislike of getting on a plane — despite her role at this global empire. British Fashion Gets a Web Dynamo 2013-02-04T11:43:14Z

For the record, Drizzy stayed sane – well, the man has a rap empire to run – but 60,000 fans moshed madly, if that counts. Wireless festival – review 2012-07-09T17:48:30Z

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, posters helped an evil empire strengthen its grip. Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope against ‘Star Wars’ propaganda! 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Would he have been so willing to withdraw peacefully and see his own empire dismantled if he had not, to some degree, taken our professed beliefs at face value? How Victory in the Cold War Led to Tragedy in the Years After 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

In a way, it is similar to what went on with the tigers in the Roman empire, as noodlers wear very little protection and do battle with mighty beasts. Last night's TV 2010-06-15T06:59:00Z

Holland said he tried "to examine, within a historical framework, the rise of a new civilisation and empire" in the Arab empire from the 7th Century. Channel 4's Islam film sparks row 2012-09-03T11:59:06Z

Patriarch Rupert Murdoch, the co-founder and acting chief executive of Fox News, has gradually ceded power within his media empire to his sons, James and Lachlan. Is this the end of Bill O’Reilly? That’s a complicated question. 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

More than anything, Blade Runner is a story about the end of empire, capitalism taken to its grim logical conclusion. Denis Villeneuve Proved to Us He Loves 'Blade Runner' More Than Anybody 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Turkish baths, which first emerged during the Ottoman empire, are the Islamic adaptation of the Roman baths. Jordanians lather up as Turkish baths become more popular 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

The building of a global empire is principally about the commodity the original owners of these imposing boxes hoped to fill them with: money. The full story of the British empire is yet to be told 2012-12-28T19:31:12Z

Most strikingly, Beard describes watching Clark, “standing on barbaric northern headlands,” saying that “our” civilization had survived the Roman empire’s collapse “by the skin of our teeth.” The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Europe's capacity and willingness for overseas expansion would be further diminished by an empire manqué – Germany – gone mad in its midst. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z

The sequel “is a kind of spy thriller about a mole inside Gilead” working to bring down the evil empire, Michiko Kakutani wrote in her review of the novel for The New York Times. Judging Margaret Atwood’s Top Secret New Novel 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

Another commonality among the films was their Cold War outlook, even after they departed from the novels — Russia was the evil empire, right through “Shadow Recruit.” Review: Meet the New Jack Ryan, Same as the Old Jack Ryan 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

"I am not interested in presiding over a crumbling empire," Kazaras says flatly, referring to the inevitable vocal decline that sets in over time. Peter Kazaras, veteran of all opera trades, steers Seattle Opera's young artists 2011-03-30T02:35:05Z

Her sex-positive image is the cornerstone of a business empire built on health and diet books, cosmetics, supplements, branded salt rubs, protein shakes and, of course, Thighmasters, those overgrown binder clips immortalized in 1990s infomercials. Suzanne Somers Gets Flirty in a Pink Salt Room 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The extraordinary lives of the Soongs were made possible by a confluence of globalization, modernization and Western penetration of an ancient, tottering empire. The Famous, Feuding Siblings Who Helped Shape Modern China 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Gone, too, were Victorian certainties and the confidence of an empire. 'The Great Silence': Britain's mourning and recovery in the wake of World War I 2010-06-02T22:39:00Z

In fascinating detail, Matteo's book demonstrates the myriad ways in which the Beatles and their inner circle exploited their moving image to build an empire that lasts into the present day. How the Beatles sold pop music on the big screen 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

This, then, is a novel about the new American empire and its repercussions around the world, about technology and, most movingly, about family. Forget-me-not 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

An empire was being built upon his shoulders, but Lil Peep was collapsing. Juice WRLD and the Tragic End of the SoundCloud Rap Era 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

It was like a cottage version of “The Americans”: an East German spy, spurred by Ronald Reagan’s “evil empire” speech, recruits her nephew and sends him on an absurdly dangerous undercover mission into West Germany. The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

A newer, postcolonial school places the "great divergence" rather later, arguing that until 1800, the Chinese empire largely kept up with Britain, the most prosperous and vigorous of the European economies. From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra – review 2012-07-19T07:00:02Z

We should stop building bricks and mortar and empires, and rid ourselves of the belief that growth is a good thing for the arts. Why major theatre institutions should be left to die 2012-08-30T16:56:47Z

Most of the displays show the war from the perspective of Britain, its empire and its allies - including the United States, which entered the conflict in 1917. UK museum looks at epic, intimate sides of WWI 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

But I also loved the conceit of Blofeld’s empire hidden in a volcano in “You Only Live Twice.” | Q&A: At the Barbican Centre, James Bond’s Stylish Progress – Q and A 2012-07-18T23:13:39Z

“Becoming Cousteau” may be light on some of the late-years squabbling over his sizable empire, including the bankrupted theme park Cousteau Oceanic Park near Paris. In ‘Becoming Cousteau,’ diving into the depths of Jacques 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

“Indigenous Empire” also invokes another concept that may raise some eyebrows: empire. A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Located on the east coast of the Mediterranean, Lebanon was an important part of the classical world, home to the Phoenician civilization and part of the Persian and Roman empires. Ancient statues looted in Lebanese war returned decades later 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Renowned Hungarian director István Szabó gave Fiennes arguably the biggest technical challenge of his movie career: to play three characters, three generations of a Hungarian Jewish family in the Habsburg empire’s final years. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

So that Britain's intelligence war against communism was also one which sought, dichotomously, to both preserve and retreat from empire. Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z

This imposing and sprawling complex grew with the family empire from the 13th century until just before World War I. Rick Steves gets lost in the music and grandeur of Vienna 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Whether we think it good or evil, all of us have been colonised by this empire of images. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

When his empire collapsed, the tabloids were particularly brutal. It’s Not Always Excellent to Be Jamie Oliver 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Trust a Finn to celebrate an unclouded vision of empire at the Proms. Sakari Oramo's First Night at the Proms 2013-07-10T17:59:00Z

Montefiore, whose previous books include a vivid portrait of Josef Stalin's Kremlin, offers a fact-rich and mostly chronological account of the conquerors, empires and warlords who have taken turns ruling and ravaging the city. 'Jerusalem': An unholy history of a holy city 2011-12-22T00:52:03Z

But how do you build an empire without risk? Fox to launch singing contest tied to hit series 'Empire' 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Brinkley makes a cogent case for why Luce’s story and the sometimes controversial history of his frankly partisan publishing empire deserve to be seen in a new light. Books of The Times: Alan Brinkley Tells Henry Luce?s Story in ?The Publisher? 2010-04-19T21:35:00Z

With the collapse of Communism, Stanley began venturing deeper into the old Soviet empire, eventually spending a great deal of time in Chechnya, where he became consumed by the tragedy unfolding. Stanley Greene, a War Photographer Who Stayed When Others Left 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

The building represented the northern flank of his empire, after all. Up Close: Keeping It Local 2010-12-08T20:17:00Z

Before taking on her job as secretary of state, Ellen ran a media empire that produced important investigations, and her son is an international journalist determined to find the truth and protect his sources. Review | Hillary Clinton’s thriller with Louise Penny is a thinly veiled jab at a Very Stable Genius 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Salt is the latest addition to the Australian celebrity chef Luke Mangan’s growing culinary empire, which includes restaurants in Sydney, South Melbourne and Tokyo. The Asia Issue Bites: Exotic Tastes in China, Vietnam, Singapore and Japan 2011-03-18T18:55:21Z

Umar Rashid contributed a fictional equestrian portrait of a Black “Lord Baltimore” from an ongoing series of purposefully anachronistic history paintings that tell the story of the Frenglish, a massive colonial empire he invented. In Newport, Artists Turn Tables on the Gilded Age 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

“We heard from them that it seemed like an empire,” she said. Study Finds a Gender Gap at the Top Museums 2014-03-07T23:09:29Z

Sounds great, but it’s perhaps worth remembering that the Carnegies amassed their inconceivable wealth by crushing unions and exploiting workers as they expanded their steel and railroad empires. Protesting has never been so hilarious 2013-05-16T16:37:00Z

Also charged were Brooks's racehorse trainer husband Charlie Brooks, her secretary and other staff including her driver and security officials from News International, the British newspaper arm of Murdoch's media empire. Ex-editor charged in phone-hacking scandal 2012-05-15T09:52:00Z

When travelers go to Italy, they are typically drawn to the Romans and the remnants of their empire. A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

At the empire’s height, their sway ranged from western north Africa via Sicily to Yemen and the Levant. The Art Lovers Who Founded Cairo 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Historians determined that the shield once belonged to Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the presumptive heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, whose assassination by a Serbian nationalist in 1914 set off World War I. Renaissance Shield With an Afterlife in World Wars Is Returning to Europe 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

In the portfolio of galleries that make up the Gagosian empire, the bookstore might be the most fun. 10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Upper East Side 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

She has a plan to take over his empire of young talent by making them all her tour openers. ‘The Idol’ Season Finale Recap: What Was the Point? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

"He was responsible for creating the concept of the British empire, so he affects all our lives in one way or another." Gorillaz planning two more Plastic Beach albums? 2010-04-28T09:29:00Z

Anthony Weiner to the phone hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's media empire and the Occupy Wall Street protests. NPR's 'Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me' debuts on TV 2011-12-23T12:39:13Z

These were byproducts of empire — men denied full pensions by France, women seeking their bearings in West African culture, children raised amid secrets and shame. In Dakar, African Art Speaks in All Its Voices 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

But, every so often, they'll do something a bit mental – have a revolution, nearly elect Le Pen, capitulate in the face of an evil empire whose armies they outnumber, ban the burqa from public places. If Britain decides to ban the burqa I might just start wearing one 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

Prada Outdoor, the freshly launched collection from the Milanese fashion empire, is happy to provide. What’s up with Prada’s $995 volleyball? 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Within these few square blocks, the Ottoman rulers commissioned grandiose palaces and other buildings that proclaimed the durability of their empire. Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul 2014-01-31T18:45:16Z

It's just that he cares about his empire even more. With “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence," CNN has its "Succession" 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

It’s about 50 percent postcolonial escape fantasy, in which an uptight Briton moves to a tropical outpost of the former empire and learns to balance Western rationalism with Eastern superstition, emotion and ease. Review: In ‘Good Karma Hospital,’ Some Familiar TV Templates 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

So how do you think about performing him today, during a global reckoning with racism, slavery and empire? Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

It deals with the absorption of a kingdom into an empire, depicted as a game of erotic manipulation on the part of their respective rulers. Julius Caesar – review 2012-10-02T12:38:45Z

There's nothing not to love about Disney's second animated feature-length film, which gave us Jiminy Cricket and the Academy Award-winning song that's now synonymous with the entire Disney empire: "When You Wish Upon a Star." Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Toy Story 3'? Find out more about John Lasseter, the man behind the toys 2010-06-17T20:15:00Z

Ron Hutchinson is skilful, too, in Durand's Line, illustrating the arbitrary arrogance of empire. The Great Game: Afghanistan 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

In terms of the Kardashian empire, we also see one of the themes being the birth of 24 hour media and reality television. How the OJ Simpson Bronco Chase Affected the Kardashian Kids 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Could it be that Europe's abandonment of formal empire failed to provoke a cathartic revision of grandiose old notions of national and racial superiority? The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z

He didn’t do well with NBC the network, but NBC Universal the cable empire—Bravo, USA et al.—grew impressively while he ran it. CNN Picks a New Boss: Will It Be Saved, or Has it Been Zuckered? 2012-11-29T15:00:21Z

The wide-open eyes are reminiscent of the art of the Neo-Hittite empire in the southern areas of modern Turkey. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z

We are definitely not the British empire in the way that we do business. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

But the breadth of subjects covered before that outburst – drugs, Britain's hankering after an empire, Alec Guinness – was also characteristic of one of the few metallers to have gained widespread admiration outside the leather-and-long-hair brigade. In praise of ? Lemmy 2011-01-10T00:05:18Z

Given that it was Constantinople, successively capital of Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires, perhaps that’s not so surprising. ‘Standing by the Bosphorus gives me goosebumps’: Jason Goodwin's Istanbul 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

The result was The Foundation Trilogy, a stunning science fiction work that raises profound questions, such as why do empires rise and fall? Saci Lloyd's top 10 political books 2013-03-15T16:24:50Z

As for the term empire, he said, thinking about how such “resonant structures of power” occur in different times and places “is not the same as implying a moral equivalence.” A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

She built a makeup empire from Kylie Cosmetics, which she runs largely from her iPhone with the help of her mother Kris. 'Look like Kylie Jenner' beauty ads banned from Instagram 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Unbeknownst to either of them, the empire is crumbling, and the brothers, along with their family, must put their differences aside to try to save the company. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Riverdale’ and ‘Royal Crackers’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

In the second chapter, she dreams of hellish scenes of wartime suffering and death, of fascism and empire and very bad fathers. Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

But given the direction of his career over the last decade, his image is now more like that of an empire builder. Fashion’s New Order 2012-09-07T20:36:32Z

We might be reaching the real limits — the structural limits and the spiritual threshold — of a white supremacist empire. Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

Yet this down-market shift shouldn’t come as a surprise, given his empire’s rapid expansion over the past decade. T Magazine: Gordon Ramsay Plays Chicken 2011-08-16T14:00:47Z

While it was first used to celebrate the Russian empire, it later became synonymous with American democracy. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

But, she said, she can’t compete with empire builders with ready cash to build the kind of glossy restaurants that Miamians have come to expect. A Carbone on Every Continent: Major Food Group Is Going Global 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

And this “Hothouse,” like “Mission Drift,” reminds us of the theatrical energy to be minded from enervated empires. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: The Empire Crumbles 2013-06-28T17:06:22Z

The two Newport festivals had been established as nonprofit ventures, but in 1960 Mr. Wein formed a corporation, Festival Productions, to run what soon became a worldwide empire. George Wein, Jazz Festival Trailblazer, Is Dead at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Despite the smirky wit and rogue attitude that gave Bond the superficial appearance of a rebel, he was a government employee furthering the interests of the remains of the British empire. Assange: Bond villain -- or Bourne? 2010-12-03T16:04:00Z

Everyone is slightly confused, overwhelmed and made lonely by the size of the empire. A Grisly Fable of Ottoman Albania 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

But his devotion to his empire seems to not have given him much protection against hits taken in the recent imbroglio. In the New Hollywood, Sumner Redstone Is a Man Out of Time 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

St Basil's was like a clown's nose on the face of the evil empire. St. Basil's Cathedral: Russia's faulty towers? 2011-07-12T14:07:10Z

The show, with his sharp eye for talent, became the cornerstone of his entertainment empire. 'Soul Train' host Don Cornelius dead of suicide 2012-02-02T11:48:22Z

On 30 Rock, she nailed the conniving child pitted against Alec Baldwin for control of a media empire. Chloë Grace Moretz: 'People said: You're going to lose your career over this' 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

Cheney “had his own empire there and marched to his own drummer,” Bush says. Jon Meacham’s ‘Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Let’s start out with the core of Marvel’s empire: the Avengers. A Comic Book Dummy's Guide to the Marvel Universe Plan 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The last remaining location in New York of the papaya empire is on Broadway and 72nd Street. A Food Tour of Seinfeld’s New York 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Before being approached to join the Core club, Irwin D. Simon, the chief executive officer of Hain Celestial Group, the natural foods empire, took a Groucho Marx view of club membership. Portals to Power 2011-06-17T19:58:06Z

I’d recommend Roth’s book to those who wish to understand how quickly the end of empire can come upon you. The Books We’re Turning to Now 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

In the new trailer, cut for U.S. audiences, Lawrence and Cooper are again shown playing Serena and George Pemberton, tycoons of a timber empire in 1930s North Carolina. Watch the New Trailer for Serena With Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

No one ever ruled a criminal empire on good vibes alone. Watch the trailer for "The Mandalorian" spinoff "The Book of Boba Fett" 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Being fit serves him well in his fast-paced life on TV and at the top of a restaurant empire, he said. Gordon Ramsay’s social media project culminates in cookbook 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The only thing that stopped the growth of his restaurant empire, he said, was “bad press.” From ‘Top Chef’ stardom to bankruptcy: The rise and fall of Mike Isabella 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

Guccione built a corporate empire under the General Media Inc. umbrella that included book publishing and merchandising divisions and Viva, a magazine featuring male nudes aimed at a female audience. Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione dies at 79 2010-10-21T02:03:00Z

It’s the latest project by Ravi DeRossi, the restaurant mogul who’s made waves on the New York dining circuit with his efforts to turn his empire — or at least most of it — vegan. Where to find the best vegan dining in Manhattan 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

But album by album she has been connecting ever more widely to the former Portuguese empire and to 21st-century technology. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Kublai rules a massive empire, but still has unfinished business: the holdout remnants of the Chinese Song dynasty, as well as fellow warlords who fear that conquest has softened the Mongol out of Genghis’ grandson. REVIEW: Khan Job: Netflix's Ludicrous Marco Polo 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Marco is the protagonist only in name; Richelmy is too bland to be more than the handsome camera through which we explore the empire. REVIEW: Khan Job: Netflix's Ludicrous Marco Polo 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

They were creatures of a polyglot empire, and nationalism wasn’t their style. Meet the Levy Family. Their History Is Our History. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

He talks of feeling ill at ease in the world, of his particular fascination with ups and downs, be they the rise and fall of empires or bipolar disorder moodswings. Foals: 'I built an enamel around myself' 2010-05-06T20:30:00Z

But the true satirical bite of the show lies in its suggestion that Silicon Valley is an empire built on quicksand — and that it, like Pied Piper, could one day sink into the earth. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3 Finale: An Empire Built on Quicksand 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

But Truman faced powerful opposition from the Republican establishment, including the former president Herbert Hoover and Henry Luce, whose Time/Life media empire presaged Fox News today. The Debate to Use Atomic Bombs Against Japan 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

Writing back to the empire, asserting its independence in "chutnified" Indian English, this masterpiece of magic realism borrows the device of the storytelling scribe from the "Mahabharata," an ancient Indian epic. 5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

Selvin, who had access to the camps of the “core four” but interviewed only two of them, does not take sides as the remaining musicians debate how to handle the empire. Review | How the Grateful Dead survived Jerry Garcia’s death 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

The expansion of the “Star Wars” empire isn’t limited to the Disney theme parks announced last week. Air Travel News: ‘Star Wars’ Planes Take Flight and More 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

While I now recognize the indoctrination, I do still admire the Brits and the empire they once ruled. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

My intellectual sensibilities were forged in the crucibles of a collapsing empire and the emergence of an independent nation. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z

There are obviously those who will view this book – like so much of the output of Simon Cowell's global media empire – as an entity aimed solely at the lucrative "irredeemable half-wit" market. Britain's Got Talent – and Pudsey has an entourage 2012-07-19T19:00:09Z

We live in the declining years of what is still the biggest economy in the world, where a looter elite has fastened itself upon the decaying carcass of the empire. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z

Especially if, at the same time, he’s building an empire back home. Baltasar Kormakur Directs ‘2 Guns’ in the U.S. 2013-05-10T19:33:59Z

This "empire of cash" was run by and for entrepreneurs, replacing "the chivalrous medieval knight with a new type of hero: the man of business". City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire by Roger Crowley - review 2012-07-24T10:30:02Z

On one level, the trilogy is a hardheaded examination of modern Austria as an affluent post-Freudian society of guilt and repression that may be a hangover from the Hapsburg empire. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Hope,’ the Third Film in Ulrich Seidl’s Unblinking Trilogy 2013-12-16T22:48:24Z

We were, at the time, an empire, and what's more we knew the words to our national anthem; to be reduced to simple strip of tarmac was a real slap in the face. Whip It? You mean it's not about an undernourished British dog? 2010-04-13T14:45:00Z

The spur was the American broadcast, on PBS, of “I, Claudius,” a BBC series based on Robert Graves’s novels about the Roman empire. John Hurt, British Actor Hailed for His Shape-Shifting Roles, Dies at 77 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

He needed to show he was dedicated to jihad; he built his empire on a promise he would bring jihad to western Christians – to defeat them, to avenge their crimes. Christians and Muslims are distorting crusades, says historian 2010-06-02T15:47:00Z

Certainly, the book’s message is not overtly political, even if its main characters, a younger Raif and his girlfriend, Maria Puder, are youthful citizens of World War I’s defeated empires. Review | Why is this Turkish novel from the 1940s selling 1 million copies today? 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Here, though, he returns his focus to rebuilding his shattered empire, shaking down cake shops, motels and other businesses that he previously assumed he had outgrown. True Detective season two, episode four recap – Down Will Come 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

There is a season-by-season progression from bourgeois professionalism and petty entrepreneurship to medium-scale enterprise to multinational enterprise and monopoly capitalism, all the way to the final brutal form of empire ending in self-destruction. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

The throne room is part of the Sillón del Inca archeological site, the ruins of a town that was one of the most southerly parts of the Inca empire. Head in the clouds in Salta, Argentina 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

A. At its height, Kublai’s empire would take in 10 of today’s nations and bits of 13 others. Reconstructing Marco Polo’s Journey East 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

The Teragram’s existence also exposes a little-known rift in the Bowery Presents empire, which acts as a freelance promoter and controls venues like the Music Hall of Williamsburg and Terminal 5. Bowery Ballroom Leader Plans Music Club in Los Angeles 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Egypt’s assimilation of Nubia into its empire prompted some political niceties. Art Review: Partnerships and Power Shifts Between Two Mighty Lands 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z

But he eventually lost his Penthouse empire due to Reagan-era censorship, a series of extravagant business failures and the Internet onslaught of free . Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse, dies 2010-10-21T04:45:00Z

“The 3,000-year-old statues now threatened in Iraq have seen a lot of empires come and go.” Islamic State Destruction Renews Debate Over Repatriation of Antiquities 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

To put her tenure in context: She has been empire building through five presidential administrations. Imagining a World After Anna 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

During that time, the United States expanded territorially and commercially, brutally pacified the Native American population, fought several wars, built a dynamic industrialized economy and acquired a maritime empire of colonies and protectorates. Where Does American Foreign Policy Go From Here? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

"Lately I'm eating from a can / As the sun sets on this empire made of sand," it starts, like a sleazoid version of Johnny Cash's Hurt. New band of the day: Jed Nayef (No 1,475) 2013-03-20T16:51:23Z

The tools are recognisably functional – scalpels, forceps, probes and more – and comparable to finds made around the Roman empire. What the Romans didn't do for us 2011-03-16T20:30:00Z

In its heyday the island of Venice ruled a huge empire, and that included a good part of the Italian mainland. Escape the Venice crowds with these memorable day trips 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

TV undercut the mystique of royalty but spread its image, expanding the queen’s virtual reach even as the colonial empire diminished. Her Majesty’s Last Broadcast 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

With that gesture, she created a brand identity and sowed the seeds of her empire. Kate Spade, Whose Handbags Carried Women Into Adulthood, Is Dead at 55 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Claims that the British empire deserves credit for building Sri Lanka's infrastructure? Fear of a Brown Planet ? review 2011-08-16T18:14:01Z

"I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be," she said. Actress Sienna Miller tells inquiry of media abuse 2011-11-24T12:34:12Z

But 13 years later, the Hong Kong native sits quietly at the top of a publicly traded Hypebeast empire. If You Hype It, Will They Come? 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

He will direct an adaptation of reporter Nick Davies' book Hack Attack, which follows Davies' investigation into Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Clooney to direct phone-hacking film 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

“You have the idea of this music that’s very hard and durable, but at the same time the literal translation can be seen as a challenge to the idea of building empire through violence.” Antibalas, Afrobeat Band, Hopes for Post-‘Fela!’ Audience 2012-08-06T22:32:17Z

Then, nearly two years ago, Penske significantly expanded his empire by buying the granddaddy of Hollywood trades -- Variety -- for about $25 million.  Variety-owner Penske Media to acquire Fairchild Fashion 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

It’s likely that a film about a hard-edged, amoral businessman mistreating others to craft a business empire isn’t the film people want to see right now ... Nah Nah Land: the hyped films that failed to get any Oscar nominations 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

By and large, those people overlooked, or didn’t think as far as, the more odious association: that of empire and colonization. 21 Savage, American Rapper 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Those anchors of the Disney entertainment empire are widely seen in theaters around the world, fulfilling at least one basic criterion of what “cinema” might be. Will Streaming Kill the Art of Cinema or Grant It New Life? 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

A copiously illustrated tribute to Bumble Bee Seafoods, an Astoria, Ore., company that built an empire on catching, processing and packing seafood, with fishing boats and packing plants at ports throughout Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Local books: a novel of horse-racing, a history of Bumble Bee Seafoods 2012-04-09T21:32:04Z

Their dress marked them as members of the Society of Jesus, the leading religious order of the day, as did their place of meeting—the Collegio Romano, headquarters of the Jesuits’ far-flung empire of learning. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

She’s created such an empire for herself and it’s awesome to see a girl that you grew up with have that success. Laguna Beach, 10 Years Later: All This Drama Started With the Black and White Party 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Not quite a century ago, Vienna was downgraded from being the glorious capital of a sprawling empire to the capital of just one country, Austria. What to Do in Vienna 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Had he lived another 15 or 20 years the Germans might have been, like the Gauls, included in the empire. Self-Portrait Of the Oilman As Collector 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z

Excluded from the love of a father who is too busy struggling to hold his business empire together, the boy goes slumming it in Eastcheap. Shakespeare's best 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

The foreign secretary's offices, far grander than anything in Number 10, are there to star-strike visiting dignitaries, dating from an era when our empire was bigger than Hollywood. It's only natural that William Hague should be starstruck by Angelina Jolie 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

She is also the wife of Anthony Bamford, director of the JCB construction empire, although here in the farm shop the emphasis is very much on organic spelt bread rather than hydraulic excavators. Green is the new black: the unstoppable rise of the healthy-eating guru 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

His TV empire has beamed scantily dressed women into Italian households for decades – shaping, feminists say, popular views of women. Weinstein-accuser Argento turns ire on Berlusconi before Italy poll 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Branca is the lawyer who met the superstar singer when both were young men and is seen as the architect of Jackson's financial empire. Sony bets MJ fans won't stop 'til they get enough 2010-03-17T10:59:00Z

And there’s a not-too-heavy-handed metafictional thread about the ways in which managing the timeline is akin to building a fantasy story — or, by extension, to overseeing an immense comics-based entertainment empire. Review: ‘Loki,’ on the Light Side of the Marvel Streaming Universe 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

As for the empire that was hewn out over the course of three centuries by varieties of British and Irish actors, this was the biggest of its kind, affecting every continent. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin - review 2012-12-28T08:00:03Z

Had Alamein been lost, the Americans would have had to do most of the work themselves and the British empire might have ended even sooner than it did. The Phantom Army of Alamein by Rick Stroud - review 2012-12-21T22:55:05Z

And now we're off, racing round the Roman empire, solving mysteries at every turn. TV review: Rome's Lost Empire; The Trouble with Aid 2012-12-09T23:45:01Z

The channel is part of a media empire owned primarily by the royal family of Qatar, a Persian Gulf state that is rich in oil and natural gas. Al Jazeera America: Was the TV news network cursed from the start? 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Photograph: BBC Empire of Secrets is, as Calder Walton himself writes, "the first book devoted to British intelligence during the twilight of empire that has been based on declassified intelligence reports". Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z

It’s an empire of tomatoes and corn, and our main trading partner is another little kingdom, the District of Columbia. A family farm’s Russian invasion

In other words, the social-media revolution didn’t take down the old media empires. How to have a pop culture hit like La La Land and Rae Sremmurd 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Times Books says the book will draw upon "unparalleled access to exclusive sources" with inside knowledge of the Murdoch empire. Times reporters get book deal on phone scandal 2011-08-09T15:31:04Z

The discovery inspires Polonsky to make a journey across the former Soviet empire, tracing the lives of the novelists, scientists and doomed Communist apparatchiks whose works line ­Molotov’s shelves. Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z

Raw video: Eric Tanaka accepts the Outstanding Restaurateur on behalf of Tom Douglas Tom Douglas' restaurant empire is clustered in three Seattle neighborhoods. Beard Foundation names Douglas 'Outstanding Restaurateur'; Matt Dillon named best chef in the Northwest 2012-05-08T04:37:15Z

Infrastructure was critical to the success of South America’s greatest empires. Smithsonian’s ‘Great Inka Road’ by the numbers 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

That means we get to hear jaunty syncopated works by Russians — as well as blues-inflected gems composed by Polish artists born under the Russian empire. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

In Mr. Lieven’s telling, the primary cause of the war was “the conflict of interests, fears, and ambitions created by the decline of the Ottoman and Austrian empires.” Review: ‘The End of Tsarist Russia’ by Dominic Lieven 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

Can any age of empire, which this certainly was for the Netherlands, be described in something like an exhibition as a golden age? The full story of the British empire is yet to be told 2012-12-28T19:31:12Z

But his grandfather — possibly the world’s richest man at the time, thanks in large part to his oil empire — first treated the kidnapping as a hoax. The ‘Trust’ Equation: Wealth and Power Equals Misery 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

Every year, beginning on Labor Day, Zentner transforms his home into a sort of autumn empire, full of dried corn and stuffed ravens from Michaels. There's something about autumn: why do people love fall so much? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Which apparently was good enough to put Sanchez in an empire state of mind. Much ado about Mark Sanchez's teenage fling 2011-02-10T16:20:00Z

Ben, who studied botany at UC Berkeley, turned those seeds into a small, independent empire, but he's a pacifist with philanthropic goals. Review: Stone back in bold form with `Savages' 2012-07-03T01:46:04Z

The Athenian Empire, the British Empire -- Well, I was just about to ask you if you think we are, in fact, the modern version of empire. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z

A reduced version of the map was used by Captain James Cook, who claimed Australia for the British empire when he reached the east coast almost 130 years later. Australia can breathe easy after 17th century map restored 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

The composer views World War One as being about the end of the old empires and the inevitable emergence of the modern world. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

The novel ends with Justinian and Theodora being acclaimed new rulers of the empire. The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy - review 2012-07-20T21:55:01Z

Kondo, 36, started as an organizing consultant while she was a student at a Tokyo university, and she now heads a global tidying empire. Marie Kondo would like to tidy up your relationships — and your office, too 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

His mother’s parents would meet decades later in a classroom on the island of Mindanao, in the southern Philippines, when the country was part of the American empire. A Powerful Story of Coming to America, Finding Promise and Paradox 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

He rose from a modest start as the son of an immigrant taxi driver to become a billionaire Republican powerbroker with a casino empire and influence on international politics. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

More than 10 million soldiers died, as empires crumbled and the world order was rewritten. Sarajevo marks war centennial with message of unity to divided country 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

As the architect of his restaurants’ precise, casually elegant style of service and later at the helm of the company’s brand, she has done more to build the Keller empire than anyone besides Mr. Keller. Thomas Keller, an Exacting Chef at a Crossroads 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

“This region has been the center of the world for every great empire recorded in human history,” said Candida Moss, a professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame. In Syria and Iraq, Trying to Protect a Heritage at Risk 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

That kind of contempt, sexism and bullying is the squawks of a falling empire, which I think Hollywood is.” Eileen Myles, the Poet Muse of ‘Transparent’ 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

David Chang, the bad-boy chef behind the Momofuku empire, isn’t exactly the guy you would think of when it comes to baby food. David Chang Loves Beethoven’s Ninth (but Won’t Finish ‘Infinite Jest’) 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

While the empire grew apace, so did production of the coal and ships that ensured British naval supremacy. A History of the British Empire at Its Peak 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The “world between empires” was once far more familiar to us than it is today, largely through Latin and Greek sources that told a very biased view of history. Review | ‘The World Between Empires’ helps dismantle the myths of Rome 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Balancing with ease on the line between parody and sincerity, Lonely Island released three singles that went platinum and launched a silly little empire. Lonely Island goes pop: The trio weighs in on weed, Macklemore and why Andy Samberg says “we were woke baes early” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Since then, the An family has built an empire of restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles out of those noodles, and it’s easy to taste why. These Garlic Noodles Cross Cultures, but Are Deeply San Franciscan 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Soon, he builds a fashion empire and becomes one of Hong Kong’s richest animals. Wong Ping’s Candy-Colored, Taboo-Smashing World 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

“If you take the Ottoman Empire as a map, I think the most invisible part of the empire is Istanbul and the artists from Turkey.” Voyages: The Istanbul Art-Boom Bubble 2012-02-10T17:20:36Z

Heinrich replies, “That is how empires end, a mad old bat being treated obsequiously in a provincial hotel.” Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, though, his empire collapsed when he was convicted and sent to jail for conspiring to bribe a Mississippi state court judge in 2008. 'The Fall of the House of Zeus': Portrayal of lawyer's fall not a pretty picture 2011-01-06T00:11:06Z

“Star Wars,” in all its eras and forms, is about a galaxy so vast and unruly that even at the apex of mighty empires, there are untamed, free and lawless zones. Baby Yoda Is Your God Now 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

But some art experts say the building boom boils down to little more than dueling empires with a “mine is bigger than yours” mentality. Picking Up the Pace: A Mega-Gallery Expands in Chelsea 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

Obviously, empire gone and business not so great, so the port of Liverpool lost its raison d’être. Roger Bennett spent his British boyhood fixated on ‘Miami Vice’ and the Chicago Bears — then lived his own American Dream 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

The company is also preparing original content for 2015 featuring superheroes and villains from Marvel Studios, another part of the Disney empire. ArtsBeat: ‘Clone Wars’ Moves to Netflix 2014-02-13T11:00:26Z

With their crystalline mosaics and thin, pure light, these humbly elegant basilicas conjure the time when a strange, fervent, unyielding new cult rose from the ashes of empire. Rome, Sacred Ground for Nearly 3,000 Years, and Counting 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

At that moment, we were faced with a vision of that former democracy of cars, so lauded in our childhood, now reconstituted as a pre-Reaganesque evil empire and doing terrible things in a distant land.  My teenage nuclear fantasies: Imagining apocalypse in America’s atomic age 2014-05-08T12:15:00Z

This was a distant corner of the Roman empire, positioned precariously on the edge of the world. Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins – review 2013-07-24T10:06:01Z

Instead there is a moving reflection on the life of Karl Kraus, the Viennese writer who saw the horrors of the 20th century before anyone else, and satirised the dying Habsburg empire with brilliant cruelty. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm – review 2013-03-31T08:00:06Z

Profiling cultural empires and their instigators is familiar territory for Jones, who also wrote “Jim Henson: The Biography” and “George Lucas: A Life.” Review | A portrait of Dr. Seuss offers a look at the prankster workaholic behind the iconic characters 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

It is a curious experience, being drawn into the show as someone who objects to inherited privilege and the shameful trappings of empire. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Fresh off his big win at the Golden Globes on Sunday, Michael Keaton is in talks to star in a new film about the man behind the McDonald’s fast-food empire. McMovie: Michael Keaton Could Play Ray Kroc 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

When the moment came for coming to terms with the crumbling Soviet empire, he missed his chance. Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Biography by Artur Domoslawski – review 2012-08-02T07:00:02Z

It is his first public appearance, required to speak through a microphone to vast crowds at the empire exhibition at Wembley stadium, and via live radio to the nation. The King's Speech ? review 2011-01-06T15:00:00Z

Though both were successful apart, together they created an empire. LA Originals: a Netflix documentary about an influential hip-hop duo 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Many separatists harbor an inchoate nostalgia for both the Soviet Union and the tsarist empire, and the distinction between Russian imperialists and local anarchists is vague at best. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Now, 70 years since independence and partition – the creation of Pakistan and the effective end of the empire – depictions of India in British cinema have evolved, but not with great urgency. End of empire: why Bollywood needs to grasp India's story 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

The Sunni caliph Mansur, whose new empire stretched from India to the Atlantic, sailed up and down the Tigris to reconnoitre a place for his home. A history of violence 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

In the fourth century BC, this Macedonian king led a Greek army into Asia to conquer the mighty Persian empire, then kept going, getting as far as India. The ghosts of ancient Afghanistan 2011-02-27T21:30:00Z

He turned his raunchy Hustler magazine into an empire while fighting numerous First Amendment court battles. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

He always plays the long game, and this set-back, in a tiny outcrop of his empire, is not the end of the story. Rupert Murdoch and phone hacking: an insiders' story 2011-07-27T18:24:35Z

“Every one of us is poor and powerless. We have no names, no family, and yet together we can overthrow an empire.” "Game of Thrones": Hello There, Jon Snow! 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Upbeat evangelists with the upper Midwest in their voices, they helped expand Christian broadcasting from a niche into an empire via their PTL satellite network. ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Review: Fall From Grace 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

In this guise Laia meets Elias, who is plotting his escape from the empire. Sabaa Tahir, author of ‘A Torch in the Night,’ drew from her day job and upbringing 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Rents and public transport costs in the city, whose architecture is marked by its past as the center of the Habsburg empire, are cheap compared with other western capitals. Vienna again ranked world's nicest city, and Baghdad worst 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Politically, she was a corrupt and failing empire with a government that ruled through paranoid invocation of national security, he felt. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z

Pacino's "Scarface" is set in 1980s Miami, and Tony Montana is an ambitious immigrant who runs a growing drug empire until he eventually collapses under greed and addiction. Pacino, 'Scarface' cast celebrate film's legacy 2011-08-24T10:28:13Z

Just as Ms. Rowling has meticulously controlled her public appearances, she has also maintained a tight lock on the Potterverse empire. How Much Magic Can ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Make on Broadway? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

The first season – which focused on a powerful media tycoon’s health wobble, and his squabbling brood vying for the chance to take over his empire – marked Jesse Armstrong’s series out as a solid, impressive programme. The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 1 – Succession 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Far more disturbing are the mysterious online bullies intent on ruining the lives of participants who dare to unshackle themselves from Jane’s vast tickling empire. In ‘Tickled,’ on HBO, a Wild Rabbit Hole of Hunks and Feathers 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

The waterfront site is highly charged: Nearby is a massive “Monument to the Discoverers” who built the Portuguese empire, their ships often launching from these very docks. Grada Kilomba’s Rituals of Resistance 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

As the first world war raged, the two diplomats proposed to carve up the Arab lands of the Ottoman empire. Tales of spring and winter 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

I believe it happens at the end of empire, almost always, there is one last tremendous fight and then – that's it. Jane Gardam 2011-01-10T08:00:00Z

Which is not “the left,” any more than the old empire of Fox, Universal, Columbia and, of course, Disney ever was. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

James glows with the understated dignity of a classic English rose, whether she’s wearing an empire gown or an intentionally anachronistic black leather bustier. Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies—Jane Austen, with Teeth 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

To some, this exhibition might seem like just another promotional tool for an ever-growing empire. Spellbound by Harry Potter and the Museum of Magic 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Fracostoro worked in Verona, in the empire of the Venetian republic. Titian discovery at National Gallery 2013-01-07T21:51:45Z

I can’t say that the secrets of one of human history’s largest empires were revealed that afternoon. Journeys: As Mongolia Changes, the Past Is Still Present 2012-07-13T17:33:38Z

Shakespeare was a powerful tool of empire, transported to foreign climes along with the doctrine of European cultural superiority. Shakespeare, universal? No, it's cultural imperialism 2012-05-21T13:00:03Z

French’s book was written before President Trump’s repudiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, but clearly the resulting power vacuum is nothing short of a gift to an empire bent on restoring its tributary realm. America’s Collision Course With China 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

But scholars still debate the successes and flaws of this man,who conquered half of Europe before being defeated in battle, rejected by his people and forced into exile, with his empire destroyed. French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

The two forces were political radicalism and the urge for an American empire. 'The President and the Assassin': when ruthless capitalism and radical anarchy collided 2011-06-09T20:09:05Z

The work was first performed at the crowning of Edward VII in 1902, and its grandiosity heralded the ebb of the British empire. Music Review: A New Church Organ, With Vocal Celebration 2011-06-09T22:54:43Z

But, as his film progressed, word spread of an exposé of Hearst, one of America’s most powerful men, whose empire included 26 newspapers, 16 magazines and 11 radio stations. Scale of Hearst plot to discredit Orson Welles and Citizen Kane revealed 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

A crucible of Native civilization, the town of Taos was a northern outpost of Spain’s colonial empire. Taos Had History and Mystique, but Few Skiers. Can a New Owner Change That? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

And the nostalgia is not simply personal; Baptiste’s models appear in two sets, a living room and a bedroom, which are cluttered with objects that symbolize the activity of surviving under empire. A Young Artist Charts the Journey from “Haiti to Hood” 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Whatever Guzmán had in mind in terms of genre, he was confident in the knowledge that Hollywood loves a colorful antihero, especially one who has built an empire beyond the reach of the law. Sean Penn, El Chapo and Hollywood’s mutual fascination with Big Crime 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

"You know, I built an entire empire for myself by the time that I was 11, but now I'm just the twerk queen." Pop star Miley Cyrus says she's no "twerk queen" 2013-07-30T18:15:17Z

Back then, the block was pretty bare, save for Magnolia Bakery and Bookmarc, the last vestige of Marc Jacobs’s six-shop empire. The Return of Bleecker Street 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Farther away among the far-flung remains of empire, there were whole populations of us who accurately guessed that he would prove to be the goods, if only in the long term. 'She is the Queen, whereas you are Joe Shmuck': Clive James on The Crown 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

Coming from Swift, a superstar who built a global empire penning hits about matters of the heart, this sounds like a threat–stowing her sorrow away after it brought so much success seems borderline irresponsible. Paradigm Swift 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Fearing that they will lose their biggest artists to Mr. Gagosian’s empire, dealers like David Zwirner, Pace Gallery and Marian Goodman have opened up spaces in Europe, too. ‘Degenerate Art’ to Koons’s ‘Made and Heaven’ and Much in Between 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Music has been the launch pad for Will.i.am's success, but it's now just one strand of his burgeoning empire. Will.i.am: 'I want to write code!' 2012-12-15T23:00:05Z

Winfrey rose to fame as the host of her own television talk show, using it to build a media empire that spans magazine publishing, movie and television production, cable TV and satellite radio. Apple signs up Oprah Winfrey in $1bn programming push 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The idea that Hitler should be thanked for Indian independence proceeds from the view that, by weakening Britain, Germany forced it to abandon its empire. Why Bollywood's film about Hitler is profoundly misguided 2010-06-11T08:53:00Z

Cut For more than 30 years, Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant empire has acquired a global footprint without so much as a pause in Manhattan. Wolfgang Puck’s Cut Steakhouse Coming to New York 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

He made an abrupt switch, however, as his News Corp. company struggled to contain a U.K. crisis that is threatening his entire global media empire. Embattled News Intl CEO Rebekah Brooks resigns 2011-07-15T11:47:08Z

Well, in the case of the Roman empire some of it probably went on aqueducts and roads, but a vast proportion was for the army. Defenders of the state: why we should care about army cuts 2010-10-04T13:45:00Z

The empire in “Star Wars” gets a bad rap. Confirm or Deny: Peter Thiel 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

The saga of the bronzes predates Nigeria as well as the British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria that preceded it; instead the area was a diverse tapestry of kingdoms and empires. Who Owns the Benin Bronzes? The Answer Just Got More Complicated. 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z

Garber draws out how the ideology of empire infused the philosophy of the Boy Scouts — to tame oneself before taming the world. What Is Your True ‘Character’? And Who’s to Judge It? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

She created a billion-dollar empire from a sex tape and her own force of will. Trump's reality TV cabinet: our picks, from Bear Grylls to Kris Jenner 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

That makes “Escape to Margaritaville” even more cynical than the usual jukebox musical, which merely promotes a catalog of songs, not an alcohol-based empire. Review: ‘Escape to Margaritaville,’ Where Work Is a Dirty Word 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

However — and here may be Donald Trump’s particular significance — empire, too, looks to be heading toward some kind of ultimate failure. Three failing experiments? 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Over one million of the dead were soldiers from Britain and its then empire. Lights go out across Britain, 100 years on from World War One 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

And he wrote the soundtrack to the British empire at close range. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

He wanted his old war-criminal buddy MacLeish in power, to “restore this nation to the empire it once was.” ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 10: Fireworks 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

The word “empire” has a distinct place in the American lexicon: readily applicable to other countries but rarely, if ever, to the United States itself. ‘How to Hide an Empire’ Shines Light on America’s Expansionist Side 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

He may want to talk about the big picture, but the story of Providence wasn’t about the making of “a mighty empire.” Pirates, Runaways, Smugglers and the Occasional Aristocrat 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The evil empire of Hollywood seemed to have been vanquished and exposed by a movie brat just out of film school. The folly of Empire: how Star Wars menaced Hollywood 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

So your new book, “Me, Inc.,” is all about how to build your own entrepreneurial business empire. Gene Simmons: “I don’t really care about your culture” 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

This empire of tackiness is presided over by Jonah White, who is the focus of the show, along with his uninteresting family and core staff members. Television Review: ‘Billy Bob’s Gags to Riches,’ a Dispatch From Lowbrow Land 2014-01-27T22:19:41Z

He wasn't expected to be more than a symbol – staying in London through most of the war, bidding farewell to empire as the least likely emperor imaginable. There are no short cuts for the monarchy 2011-01-09T22:00:02Z

Mr Wilson rightly believes that the empire should be seen as a unique entity, rather than a blueprint for modern Europe. Neither holy nor a failure 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

For both of them, friendship — or the appearance of it — is essential to the expansion of their empires. Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill, Twitter’s Ethics Police 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

The president was born into wealth in 1946, the scion of a New York real estate empire. Hard-line views made Lou Dobbs a Fox powerhouse. Now he’s shaping Trump’s border policy. 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Little attention was paid in 1930, for example, when a young Aristotle Onassis bought six freighters for a knockdown price of $20,000 each, seeding what would become a shipping empire. James Trager Dies at 86; Author of ?The People?s Chronology? 2012-03-05T00:56:20Z

The CNN anchor traces his family origins over nearly four centuries to tell the story of how his great-great-great-grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt built vast shipping and railroad empires and how subsequent generations squandered them. Newly Published, From the Vanderbilt Family to the Former PepsiCo CEO 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

He could have been an Italian cousin of the East European Jews who built the American movie empire. In Remembrance of Erratic Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

A similar conversation took place just a week before after Meghan McCain managed to center herself in the debate over whether Omar used anti-Semitic tropes in her critique of the Israel lobby and U.S. empire. John Oliver is right: Wield the power of public shaming responsibly 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Dutton, no heart and all cattle, runs Yellowstone half like a business empire, half like a Big Sky mafia. Review: ‘Yellowstone’ Wrangles Daddy Issues on the Range 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

She thought a lot about whether she could ever build the kind of fair and equitable jam empire she once dreamed of. For Black Jam Makers, the Power Is in Preserving 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

When the Russian empire erupted in revolution in 1917, Finland simply declared itself a country. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

The film’s financial and critical success mark a victory for Disney’s chief executive Bob Iger’s strategy of acquiring proven brands, including Pixar Animation and comic book powerhouse Marvel, to fuel Disney’s entertainment empire. Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes $517m as box office records tumble 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

This sequence of events might suggest the kind of love story that writers such as Sarah Dessen and Nicholas Sparks have turned into literary and cinematic empires. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Trump parlayed his fame as a wealthy real estate mogul into a number of movie and television cameos, while simultaneously expanding his business empire. Trump Scorns the Pop Culture World He Once Cultivated 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

In 269 Palmyra’s Queen Zenobia, taking advantage of a moment of Roman weakness, invaded Egypt to the south-west and then occupied Anatolia to the north, cleaving the Roman empire in two. Stones that speak 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Working on myself has helped eliminate my past challenges and focus on positivity like building our empire as a family,” Ms. Chu said. Better Apart, Then Together Again 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

The designer Ennio Capasa is intimately familiar with how to work with black — after all, Costume National is an empire built from the shady hue. Fashion Review: Black Is Back at Andrew Gn and Costume National 2012-03-05T18:57:05Z

In a an adopted patois over clanging reggae guitars, Styrke describes waking up from society’s brainwashing and rebelling against the men of the “empire” that try to put her in a box. Tove Styrke's 'Kiddo' Is a Feminist Pop Triumph 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great, was the first holy Roman emperor, in the eighth century, and the first emperor in western Europe since the collapse of the western Roman empire three centuries earlier. Sir Christopher Lee's new album will be '100% heavy metal' 2013-05-24T10:36:11Z

It’s an image that evokes this book’s destabilized atmosphere, what Mr. Lerner’s protagonist describes at one point as his “residency late in the empire of drones.” In Ben Lerner’s ‘10:04,’ New York Is a Character 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

I mean, O.K.: hippies also wore combat fatigues and Native American love-beads, as a means of expressing solidarity with peoples oppressed by the American empire. Critical Shopper: Where the Well Heeled Dress Down 2010-10-19T22:32:00Z

The selection includes a half-dozen smaller pictures of battered small-town buildings, neglected if not abandoned structures that FeBland calls “relics of empire.” Review | In the galleries: Images in ‘Weather the Storm’ are both reassuring and ominous 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

In those centuries, the enormous empires of the East — the Qing, the Ottomans and the Mughals — were the most formidable states on earth. When Asia Ruled the World 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

The white men were roused by an instinct of mere self-preservation, until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South to protect the Southern country.” Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan 2011-11-17T15:13:07Z

China’s Shanghai Disneyland reopened to the public on Monday, the first park of Disney’s international empire to do so, albeit with modified operations. Disney parks will 'likely' require guests, employees to wear face masks upon reopening, CEO Bob Chapek says 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

On the ground, at the nodal points between empires and religions, things were intriguing as well as messy. Coasts and coalitions 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

When the volcano destroyed and preserved these communities, the Roman empire was omnipotent. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum – review 2013-03-26T00:09:44Z

It is so interesting, because . . . we have made these huge empires from hip-hop. Inside “Atlanta” with Donald Glover: “The thesis behind the show was to make people feel black” 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

It did mark the beginning of the end of empire. Sandi Toksvig: 'I don't understand boredom' 2012-08-26T18:00:02Z

It also dealt with the repercussions of last season’s events surrounding the Mags Bennett empire, including Boyd Crowder’s vendetta against Dickie. The Morning After: Icepickin? and Grinnin? 2012-01-18T16:54:35Z

Each story illustrates one corner of a vast corporate empire. The Truth About Koch Industries 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Sixteen years later, Sasha is a superstar chef in Los Angeles, bent on expanding her restaurant empire. What “Always Be My Maybe” Gets About Making an Asian-American Rom-Com 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

A picture of the cat became an all-purpose Internet meme in late 2012; from there, Grumpy Cat became a small merchandising empire. Grumpy Cat’s Lifetime holiday movie: Claws out for Claus

The empire may be gone, but the sun never sets on British eccentricity. Review: ‘Very British Problems’ Keeps Calm and Carries On Through Discomfort 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Originally published in Basque and Spanish, it’s a book of meditations that blends together travelogues and memories from Basque country with a dark exploration of fading American empire. Review | A Basque author contemplates a complex city in ‘Nevada Days’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

You heard it from Michael Schlow, the empire builder who owns both spaces: “Full truth,” he says. Review | Nama tastes like a long-term proposition in Mount Vernon Triangle 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Shaw’s entertainment empire stretched from Taiwan to Malaysia, and from the silent era to the present — nearly 90 years in all. Run Run Shaw: The Last Emperor of Chinese Movies 2014-01-07T17:45:59Z

With its empire of smartphones, apps and internet services, Google is in the business of communication, and Eck sees Magenta as a natural extension of this work. AI is creating new types of art, and new types of artists 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

The Founder tells the story of Ray Kroc, a name that may be as unfamiliar as his the double arches of his fast food empire, McDonald’s, are conspicuous. True Stories Coming to the Big Screen This Holiday Season 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

But then most language lobbies are as much political as cultural: at their most powerful, they have helped break up polyglot empires and kingdoms, and redrawn the boundaries of nation states. Why I'm saddened by Scotland going Gaelic 2010-12-11T08:00:00Z

Both Kafka and Mr. Brod were born in Prague, which was then part of the state of Bohemia in the Austrian-Hungarian empire and is now the capital of the Czech Republic. A Yearslong Battle Over Kafka’s Legacy Ends in Jerusalem 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

This little pocket of Washington is Gerima’s empire — or his “liberated territory,” as he likes to call it. Haile Gerima Is Having a Hollywood Moment. It’s Left Him Conflicted. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Behind the candy-cute surface of the movie are hard truths – behind them, substantial research into the real low-cost motels that ring the Disney empire, lived in by poor families since the financial crash of 2008. The Florida Project’s Sean Baker: ‘I wanted the kids to be the kings and queens of their domain’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Once you have wellness, well-being, well-anything on a brand or platform, immediately people are like, ‘Oh, like Goop,’ ” Shields said, referencing to Paltrow’s upscale wellness empire. Brooke Shields is just getting started 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

“Everybody wants to be down with one empire or the other,” he said. Lonnae O’Neal: The pope and ‘Empire’ bookend a Washington day 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

In their tumultuous history in the Soviet Union and in the Russian empire before it, Jews were subjected to brutal prejudice yet often flourished. Explorer: Israel With a Russian Accent (and Pork) 2010-02-27T04:22:00Z

But the less well-known parts of the 74-mile frontier, built as the Northern frontier of the Roman empire at the height of its power, are a particular treat to discover and enjoy. Britain's best views: Hadrian's Wall 2010-04-06T13:21:00Z

With her loyal Bodyguards at her side and the help of some old criminal friends, Hail fights to protect her empire and her throne. Best science fiction and fantasy books this month 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Since then, both artists have built empires on their respective roles in the fracas. It’s all fake: How the leaked call between Taylor Swift and Kanye West exposes the artifice of celebrity culture 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

"But also, sort of recapturing some of the glories of empires — a lot of which the British just kind of burnt to the ground, which is why we don’t talk about them now." Look out, hobbits: Marlon James is working on an epic fantasy trilogy 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

The best description of the Russians I ever heard was: imagine the Irish with an empire. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

The world’s first urban centers, in Mesopotamia, were erected not as places of commerce or empire but, rather, so inhabitants could consort with the gods. Cultured Traveler: Thin Places, Where We Are Jolted Out of Old Ways of Seeing the World 2012-03-09T21:51:17Z

“You’re building your empire and conquering different parts of the world or space,” he said. An Artist Who Blurs Video Games and Italian Renaissance 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

In this ad, Virgin Media might be trying to tell you that its digital entertainment empire makes your world A More Exciting Place To Live, but what it's ended up saying is: we're watching you. The Hard Sell: Virgin Media 2011-03-05T00:07:18Z

Scholars of empire, such as Jon Wilson, who signed an open letter opposing the project, argue that it’s “not intellectually credible” as an academic endeavour. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

The Eastmans joined the battle over control of the Beatles’ business empire in 1969. John L. Eastman, Lawyer and Force in Entertainment World, Dies at 83 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

All the familiar elements are here: the rolling hills and empire waistlines, the elegant manors and manners, the silent and attentive servants. ‘Emma’ Review: Back on the Manor, but Still Clueless 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

The circulation of Playboy magazine, the bedrock of the empire, has declined from a peak of 7 million in the ’70s to 1.5 million today. How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z

The madman, sat in his empire of dust and ashes, little knowing of the glory he would achieve, while his saviour looked upon the wilderness, in the hope of changing his inevitable fate. Doctor Who's Surprising Lesson In Storytelling Starts With A Steve Jobs Cameo 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

Pitre was poised to become one of the sport’s lucrative stars as it transitioned from counterculture to commercial empire. How a Pro Skateboarder Became an Apostle of Ancient Tuning 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

On April 24th 1915 scores of Armenian intellectuals and artists were rounded up in Istanbul, the capital of the collapsing Ottoman empire, and later killed. Seeing through fire 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Unless you’re going to come in there like the British empire and establish infrastructure and reform an entire place in its image, then you’re going to be wholly ineffective. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

I’m reading Joseph Roth’s “The Radetzky March,” which is full of mourning for the end of the Austro-Hungarian empire—the twilight period before the First World War, and then after. The Books We’re Turning to Now 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

David Chang’s food empire spans more than a dozen restaurants in three countries, nine dessert bars, two cocktail lounges, one publishing company and a prepared-foods business. David Chang Bets Big, Using Silicon Valley Money 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

The man whose empire once stretched from Barcelona to Hamburg said he owed his authority to himself and not to God. Golden leaf cut from Napoleon's crown goes under hammer in France 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

We are meant to see this as a reminder of our now-lost empire, places that would surely not care about the Windsors' antics now. The King's Speech lays bare the sheer scale of the republican challenge 2011-01-18T21:00:02Z

She is Koryo Saram, meaning that her ancestors were among the Koreans who left their homeland starting in the mid-19th century to settle the far eastern frontier of the Russian empire. At Cafe Lily, the Korean-Uzbek Menu Evokes a Past Exodus 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

There are the impersonal forces that shape people’s lives — religion, empire, ideology — and there are the individuals who, like Ms. Khan, shape them right back. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

The show opens with images that chronicle the brutalized aftermath of combat, social destabilization from the sudden eradication of empire and the new realities of life in Germany's first, fraught, ultimately failed experiment with democracy. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Although the heyday of Delphi coincided with that of ancient Greece, it survived remarkably well after being subsumed into the Roman empire. Fortune-told 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Once confined to dime store spinner racks, Marvel’s creations have burst free of their humble roots, hulking out into one of the most successful transmedia empires on the planet. He Read All 27,000 Marvel Comic Books and Lived to Tell the Tale 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

And the 20th-century disintegration of the European empires, accompanied by attention to their sins, has jostled the museums’ foundations. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z

Because if one Gemstone goes down, so goes the empire they've constructed on a foundation of holy rolling, built with congregants' tithes. What's lost when "The Righteous Gemstones" and Falwell scandals spotlight holy-rolling hypocrisy 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Season 3 finds the Windsors grappling with the fact that Britain is no longer a far-reaching global empire, as well as dealing with the challenges of putting duty before their personal lives. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Crown’ and ‘Man in the High Castle’ 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

No empire is safe without a dynasty, of course. ‘Empire,’ a Terrence Howard Drama on Fox 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Or maybe it was meant as a hopeful nod to the runaway decade of success of the bonkers advice and the mean girl voice of the “Skinny B_tch” empire? A nutrition writer’s big fat PR mistake 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Almost good enough to make me sign a peace treaty with Rupert Murdoch's evil empire and subscribe to Sky Atlantic. From The Returned to Broadchurch to Game of Thrones: the best TV of 2013 2013-07-28T18:00:01Z

The French and Austrian empires are locked in battle, sending a stream of soldiers to war. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels for February 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

After fleeing from the Goths, Avars and Huns in the fifth and sixth centuries, Venetian merchants built a maritime empire on the city’s 117 islets and ruled the Adriatic for half a millennium. A Honeymoon Through Italy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The statue depicted an elegant woman in an empire dress with flowing curves — Joséphine Bonaparte, the wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, who commissioned the statue upon her death in 1814. Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

There he unravels the mysteries of his father’s shipping empire. These Are the 20 New TV Shows You Should Watch in 2017 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Awareness of polychromy has been cyclical ever since the Mediterranean empires fell hundreds of years ago. That Painted Greek Maiden at the Met: Just Whose Vision Is She? 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

The emperor promised, and delivered, a hefty ransom: a room filled with gold and silver vessels from all over the empire. Three Solo Shows at SculptureCenter in Queens 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Subsequent chapters present a braided exploration of a woman’s ordeal and an empire’s decline. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

An allegory about political power and the fall of empires, “The Tower” was written in the aftermath of World War I, although Hofmannsthal continued to work on it for nearly a decade. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

All of the women told me “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” remains the centerpiece of the empire. Keeping Up With the Kardashian Cash Flow 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Gaga's fourth record is one of the many additions to her ever-expanding multimedia empire. Lady Gaga teams up with Terry Richardson for new documentary 2012-12-27T22:26:09Z

But at both museums, Delacroix’s agitated scenes of passion and empire speak emphatically to contemporary appetites and anxieties. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The scholar Edward Said would famously argue that travel writers’ creation of a backward “Oriental” other was crucial not only to the inflated self-image of the West, but also to the actual maintenance of empire. A Journey Along the River That Separates Russia From China 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

When “Orange is the New Black” first premiered on Netflix, the streaming service was still in the infancy of its eventual programming empire. "Orange Is the New Black" trailer: Season 7 says goodbye, inside and outside of prison 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

He is a wizard with ribbon and uses an array of it to create bustles, empire waists and, later, long chiffon gowns. Review: In ‘Arena,’ Walter Dundervill Uses Fabric as a Foil 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

This is how she practices the crime-scene forensics and ancestor respect of a poet used to growing up on the erased people’s ledger of American empire. Why you should be reading poet Layli Long Soldier 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

People worldwide flock to the many attractions in the Ripley entertainment empire, including its Odditoriums in Baltimore and elsewhere, to be amazed, amused or shocked — and sometimes all three at once. Curious cartoonist Robert Ripley inspired a century of oddities 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

One of his great pleasures at Corning lay in research into cage cups, ornate luxury items from the latter part of the Roman empire. David Whitehouse obituary 2013-03-24T17:49:40Z

For most of the action they are surrounded in Christopher Oram's enabling design by grey crumbling stone, the last of the British empire. Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z

The extensive disorder of the postcolonial world, in which coups and civil wars became commonplace, made the age of European empires, when the unpoliticised natives knew their place, look peaceful in comparison. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z

From there, fangotherapy spread with the Roman empire; mud treatments and wraps remain a common spa treatment across Europe and further afield. From siestas to saunas: the 10 European wellbeing traditions everyone should try 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

TVB's television and entertainment empire remains a major influence on popular culture in Hong Kong and in overseas Chinese communities. Hong Kong media mogul Run Run Shaw dies at 107 2014-01-07T03:30:17Z

ON A map, the Holy Roman Empire resembles something closer to a Jackson Pollock painting than an empire. Neither holy nor a failure 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The drive to create an empire, he says, partly comes from being from a such a famous family. Mr Chow restaurant opens in Las Vegas: 'The only thing Chinese is my name' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

Despite making a personal appeal and proffering bags of money, the billionaire mogul couldn’t secure the loyalty of Megyn Kelly, the second-biggest attraction of the most successful outpost of his multimedia empire, Fox News. Why losing Megyn Kelly probably won’t even dent Fox News’s armor 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

The events have cast a shadow over Fox, which Ailes turned into a potent force in GOP politics and a wildly profitable arm of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire since its founding in 1996. $20 million settlement and a host’s abrupt exit add to Fox’s summer of discontent 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

The trial, which will begin on Wednesday in Brussels, the city where Tintin's creator Hergé lived, is reviving memories of an era that Belgium would rather forget: its brutal colonial empire in the Congo. Tintin: Heroic Boy Reporter or Sinister Racist? 2010-05-04T08:00:00Z

Linking Cuzco, the Incan capital in present-day Peru, to the furthest outposts of the Incan empire, it carried traders, soldiers and runners, and later the horses of the conquistadors. Protection Sought for Vast and Ancient Incan Road 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

“Daytona” brimmed with colorful stories about paranoia, pleasure, and empire, and it featured amusingly petty jabs at Pusha T’s rival, Drake. A Year in Marking the Time with Music 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

And around the corner what do we find but a nice little job taking over Daddy’s billion dollar real estate empire! Woosh-wishing through life with Jared Kushner 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Since his State Opera appointment in 1992, Barenboim has become a leading figure in Berlin cultural life, turning the company into his own cultural empire. Daniel Barenboim, Titan of Conducting, Steps Down in Berlin 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson of Tartine have grown their famed San Francisco bakery into a small empire, with branches in Los Angeles and Seoul, South Korea, and have written four cookbooks between them. The 13 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2019 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Arezu is interested, she says, “in how desire is shaped by the destructive logic of empire, how at times sex facilitates the transmission of historical violence from one body to another.” Review | In ‘Savage Tongues,’ a woman ponders a troubling relationship in her past 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

But I soon discovered that this city on the edge of the Soviet empire, at a crossroads of Europe, was a cobblestoned find. Impossible to Forget: Lviv, Ukraine 2011-01-07T19:55:00Z

It’s no surprise that he studied Doom, ultimately helping to build a small rap empire with the Odd Future collective. MF Doom Influenced Scores of Musicians. Hear 11 of Them. 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

“At its most developed, the Inca empire ran from the south of Colombia and Peru to Mendoza in Argentina,” he continues. Head in the clouds in Salta, Argentina 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

It also enabled the development of continent-sized empires such as the Scythians 2,500 years ago in what is now Iran. Ancient DNA reveals history of horse domestication 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

The reports snowballed into a public relations crisis for Sachs, 56, whose business empire was cleaved this week when his collaboration with Nike to produce art sneakers appeared to shatter. As His Nike Deal Stalls, Tom Sachs Apologizes for Workplace Culture 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

A lot of the movies released in the late 1970s and early ’80s have spawned franchises, merchandising empires and what we are now invited to call “cinematic universes.” Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

And it’s just as well Jafa-Bodden remains devoted to the 26 poses: last month, Los Angeles county court gave her control of the entire global empire. 'He said he could do what he wanted': the scandal that rocked Bikram yoga 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

It was Elba’s compelling portrayal of the complex but deadly lieutenant of a Baltimore drug empire in The Wire that propelled the actor to international fame. How a writer’s first film script inspired Idris Elba to become its star 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

In Christina Anderson’s riff on “Love’s Labour’s Lost” set in the early 1980s, day laborers tired of surviving from moment to moment vow to devote their lives to building an economic empire. Shakespeare’s Deleted Scenes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Raw silks and linens in golden tones flowed over the body in loose coats and caftans, or swaddled the shoulders atop ankle-length empire gowns. Tommy Hilfiger, Diane von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrera, the Row and More Show at Fashion Week 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

But the closeness of the eastern link between empire and church was never quite replicated in the west, with churchmen claiming and sometimes exercising the right to stand apart from and judge monarchs. The political Bible, part 2: justice. When is a king not a king? 2011-08-15T09:00:00Z

"It would be fabulous to know what he'd make of the collapse of empire now." Found: JG Farrell a worthy winner for the Lost Booker 2010-05-19T19:37:00Z

Even in death, she sought to perpetuate her dynasty and glorify the empire she had built. In the French city of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s influence is everywhere 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Deep rocking bass tones become the earth on which empires collapse in a flourish. Daniel Kramer: Carmen, I've cracked you 2011-01-12T21:31:00Z

He promises David “an empire and a line that would never fail throughout the generations.” Geraldine Brooks reimagines King David’s life in ‘The Secret Chord’ 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

“Not the first poet to meditate on political economy and empire, Joseph is distinguished by his knowledge,” Paul Franz writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

This continued as certain of those city-states, later on, became empires. What Are Borders For? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

“The show was built as a virtually nonstop advertisement for the Trump empire and lifestyle,” according to the book “Trump Revealed,” by Washington Post journalists Marc Fisher and Michael Kranish. Jeff Zucker’s singular role in promoting Donald Trump’s rise 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

An empire of both great wealth and great poverty, Britain still ruled the waves around the world. London’s Imperial War Museum takes visitors back into the trenches 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Once we hit the First World War, the British empire is really handing over to the American empire. ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Damian Lewis on 'Homeland' and 'The Forsyte Saga' 2012-09-21T18:30:54Z

When I was growing up, in the early nineteen-eighties, most of my fellow-Ghanaians viewed America as an evil empire that was bent on destroying our country. My Muslim Father’s Faith in America 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

She started doing this when she was really young and has built a whole camming empire. From phone sex to webcamming: Capturing the evolution of sex 2014-01-05T01:00:00Z

Dante's primary nemesis, Mundus, is bent on controlling humanity through addictive soft drinks and an inescapable media empire. Review: 'Devil May Cry' an infernal thrill ride 2013-01-17T12:56:12Z

Through slave labor and colonial expansion, she argues, Western powers built empires whose imposing architecture — often neo-Classical in style and claiming to represent universal aesthetic values — was itself an expression of political control. Radical Rethinking at Biennale: Africa and the Future Share Pride of Place 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Whether because of a withering drought, deforestation and soil erosion, or attacks from other tribes, or a combination of these things, their vast empire shrank and became the pueblos of New Mexico. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

The right Lafayette was in Indiana, and there the Golinkins landed, part of a tidal wave of emigration in the waning years of the Soviet empire. ‘A Backpack, a Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka,’ a Memoir 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

Not the first poet to meditate on political economy and empire, Joseph is distinguished by his knowledge, which is not merely technical. Thinking About Empire and Economy, With a Poet’s Mind and a Lawyer’s Words 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

The result, “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” became a smash for the Shirelles and, as hit after hit followed, Mr. Goffin and King vaulted to the top of the Kirshner music empire. Gerry Goffin, lyricist who co-wrote seminal ’60s hits, dies at 75

As season three of “Snowfall” ended, rivals were circling his mini-drug empire and violence levels were up. Damson Idris leads ambitious ‘Snowfall’ into a new season 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

It’s a gleaming empire of fascist enthusiasm and panicked optimism goosed by the gleeful chanting of New Age aphorisms and impossible sales goals. Review | Mateo Askaripour’s ‘Black Buck’ is an irresistible comic novel about the tenacity of racism in corporate America 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Valmorbida, whose family owns a coffee and food empire in Australia, got his first job at his stepfather’s investment bank, Morgan Schiff & Company, at 18, when he moved to New York. New York Fashion Week: Andy Valmorbida Is Throwing a Fashion Week Party 2012-09-06T05:28:01Z

Even the United States has been deeply affected by imperialism, Puri says, arguing that American slavery was an idea imported from Europe’s empires and was “the ultimate manifestation of colonization, not of land but people.” How the Dead Hand of Imperialism Continues to Influence World Politics 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

It was not clear if this was part of a planned changing of the guard or other palace intrigue engineered by Vince McMahon, the founder and owner of the wrestling empire. WrestleMania Stories Collide in the Ring 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

The show, which tells the story of how Gordy’s Motown Records empire rose and fell and then rose again, ended with Tower still somewhat in the dark about his wife’s location. Actor’s baby girl born night he stars on Broadway 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

But while Cosimo deployed Roman imagery when it served his needs, he also supported Italian in part to distinguish Florence within the empire it served. Analysis | At the Met, beautiful paintings that won’t love you back 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

In Fischer’s case, this means translating the desire to dissolve his father’s business empire into more primal, Oedipal terms. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z

In the years since, “Breaking Bad” has traced the growth of Walt’s empire, its decay and most of all his transformation. The Tv Watch: High Bar Has Been Set for the Finale of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2013-08-12T02:00:11Z

These are not the ideal scenarios under which one launches a TV empire or even attracts funding for one. What's next for Fox News without its "golden goose" 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z

“Ink” tracks The Sun’s rise to become Britain’s best-selling daily paper and the beginnings of Mr. Murdoch’s media empire that would, at its height, include Fox News and The New York Post. He’s Playing Rupert Murdoch as More Than a ‘Pantomime Villain’ 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

In an early scene, the Roman general Ezio proposes a bargain to Attila, offering him Rome's empire in exchange for Italy. Seattle Opera's 'Attila' a timely tale of warfare 2012-01-04T23:09:03Z

The country ricocheted from monarchy to republic to empire. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

At a time when funding was flowing to Silicon Valley tech start-ups, she pitched the project of building a saskatoon business empire on the television show “Dragon’s Den,” the Canadian equivalent of “The Apprentice.” Saskatoon: The Berry That Became an International Incident 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

After a brief detour in film direction, Keith began building his empire. Brighter Lights, Bigger City: Odeon’s Second Act 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ryan, who admitted she has to be “very careful” choosing roles as a member of the Disney empire, said she’d been more concerned that Mr. Jenkins was going to make a “cheesy” movie. Film: Wine, Wafer, Popcorn: Hollywood Courts Christians 2010-08-20T19:34:00Z

The most ridiculous thing the audience is asked to believe, though, is that Carrie’s refusal simply to read this copy out loud is the final straw that collapses the entire podcast empire. ‘And Just Like That …’ Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2 Recap: Relationship Place 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

In Palestine, as in so many other examples of our rapid retreat from empire, we left chaos, political confusion, bloodshed and war. Promise land 2011-01-28T08:52:01Z

If historians have reached the conclusion that no benefits of empire can be extracted from its history of oppression, does that mean moral philosophers must bow to that consensus? Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

Philip and his empire have had a bad press. Border line 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

This is also the effect of launching a drama steered by the tale of a notorious criminal, his family and his empire, in an era profoundly shaped by “The Sopranos” and “Breaking Bad.” "Narcos" returns with a fresh approach and a season steeped in violent paranoia 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Victoria even took the title of 'Empress of India', a nod to the vast possessions of one of the world's largest ever empires. Queen's "Bond girl" stunt crowns majestic rebrand 2012-07-29T15:17:31Z

Which of our past military or commercial or hereditary empires would have unleashed something as powerful as the Internet, letting it spread — unfettered and free — to every tower and hovel? How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z

It was a major city going back to Roman times, by some accounts the third-largest in the empire, in an era when Paris and Chartres were just small towns. The Legend and Lore of Notre-Dame de Reims 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere in the WarnerMedia empire, plans for a “Sopranos” film were starting to come together. Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

He tells his wife and children that he is on the verge of building an empire, and they believe him when they first see their New Orleans home, a pillared 8,000-square-foot mansion. Movie Review: ‘Mighty Fine,’ With Chazz Palminteri and Andie MacDowell 2012-05-25T00:09:31Z

Today, the dominant employer by far is the Carilion Clinic, a hospital and health-care empire with ambitions to become the region’s answer to the Mayo or Cleveland clinics. In Roanoke, Va., discovering a gateway to outdoor adventure 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Instead, in an echo of the phone-hacking scandal that beset the Murdochs’ media and entertainment empire in 2012, the publicity surrounding the allegations apparently built pressure on the family to act. Roger Ailes resigns as CEO of Fox News; Rupert Murdoch will be acting CEO 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

In the center is a piece called “Heavy Is The Head That Wears The Crown,” which is a “symbol of empires and their declines,” Mr. Birch said. Hong Kong's Conceptual Circus 2010-05-10T11:00:00Z

The Inca empire was devastated by Western imperialism. A Latina Disney Movie Princess? The Wait Isn’t Over 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

But Fleming also knows that the muscles of empire are atrophying by the time Bond gets to work. James Bond – a ticket to distant joys 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z

But the horrors he witnessed in Africa and South America altered his perspective on empire. In Ireland, Chasing the Ghost of the Rebel Roger Casement 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Presented by Olusoga, it looks at cross-cultural exchanges that, for the most part, took place during the age of exploration, before “conquest, plunder, and empire” became the norms. Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Apparently, he favored tolerance in his multicultural empire, a stance that wasn’t lost on Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

On the way she meets tyrants, spies, traitors and suspicious Christians, and faces the beginnings of the collapse of the Roman empire in Britain. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

His dealings with his family and its empire of corporations, foundations, trusts and properties of every kind, were imperious, if not byzantine. The great might-have-been 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The empire’s cornerstone was his 1977 hit “Margaritaville,” a catalog of minor mishaps — a misplaced saltshaker, a cut foot — that were all easily soothed with “that frozen concoction.” Jimmy Buffett Was More Than Beaches and Booze 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z

In the Sacred Valley, we walked the same cobblestone streets built by the Inca empire hundreds of years ago. Fulfilling a childhood dream of traveling to Machu Picchu 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Variety described it as a "Disneyland for adults" and, like Disneyland, Hefner's empire had its castle, too. Hugh Hefner in six volumes 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

There’s a new evil empire, a new evil emperor, and an even deadlier death star. Sword vs. lightsaber: How the Samurai warrior inspired the Jedi Knights 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

The region was a cauldron of empire, though the curators use the word “empire” with reservations. Review | The Met gives a long-overdue look at an African cultural powerhouse 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

If anything, the play now seems more prescient, since the painting at its centre is of the Battle of Lepanto, fought by a Christian alliance against the Ottoman empire. This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:27Z

Between the 9th and 13th centuries A.D., the Chola empire was the dominant cultural, artistic, religious and political force in southern India, centered in what is today Tamil Nadu. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

Many empires left their traces on what was once a buzzing city of poets, artists and writers. In northern Jordan, a community-based tourism project wakes the sleepy village of Umm Qais 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The book doubles as a biography of the ruthless striver Adolph "Creepy" Zukor, an orphaned Hungarian immigrant with a 10th-grade education who developed a handful of penny arcades into the empire of Paramount Pictures. How Hollywood scandal was born 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

It shows Piranesi's vision of the architecture of ancient Rome and also offers a glance at his influence on Russia over two centuries — from the Czarist court to the Soviet empire. Piranesi exhibition opens in Moscow 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Our Onion fake media empire is slowly taking over real media. Onion News Network brings strong scent of satire to TV 2011-01-05T17:09:03Z

The collaboration with the Patent Office, which is not a part of the Smithsonian empire, is scheduled to run for seven years. ArtsBeat: Smithsonian to Hold Expo with Patent Office 2013-01-16T21:19:12Z

Those who will receive an "unreserved apology" from the group, part of Murdoch's global media empire News Corp, include actress Sienna Miller and politician Tessa Jowell. News of the World faces rush of phone hack claims 2011-04-09T14:19:01Z

This is to say that Joseph was a prince in a great farming empire. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z

And there are several possible entry points to the table, beginning in the Costume Center, which breaks the chronology of modern China into eras: late empire, new Republic and Cultural Revolution. Review: In ‘China: Through the Looking Glass,’ Eastern Culture Meets Western Fashion 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Van Diemen’s Land was the empire’s dumping ground for social refuse from Great Britain. Motherlode: Parenting in a Prison Colony 2011-04-08T16:53:27Z

Underneath it all, however, was the creaking foundation of a Soviet empire whose nuclear program was governed by a combination of “ruthless expedience” and a perpetual fear of humiliation. An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Route 1 that runs through Crystal City — where Jeff Bezos's Amazon empire is setting up a new headquarters — had been renamed Richmond Highway. When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Life is fleeting, empires crumble, and sometimes quiet mountains aren’t quiet mountains at all. The (Really) Old and New Meet in Naples 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Mr Lieven’s Russia-centred point of view may jar with Poles and others who see the collapse of the tsarist empire as the midwife of national rebirth. Blindly over the brink 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

"The discovery of this kind of installation in Ashkelon evinces that the Roman tastes that spread throughout the empire were not confined to dress but also included dietary habits." Garum, the funky and fishy condiment that rose and fell with the Roman Empire 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

The claims of Mumsnet, Twitter etc to be intrinsically "democratic" forces for good that have helped to bring down evil empires in Tehran, across the Middle East and now in Wapping are wholly specious. The News of the World closes as media's tectonic plates shift 2011-07-11T15:03:15Z

Mr. Acurio, Peru’s most famous chef, with a global empire of 50 restaurants, kept the name and much of the design of the previous restaurant in order to evoke a classic Limeña taberna. A Peruvian Legend Goes Old School at a New Lima Taberna 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

Furthermore, without Star Wars, Ronald Reagan might not have invested in his “Star Wars” weaponry programme against what he called the “evil empire”. Can you imagine a world without Star Wars, Harry Potter or Oasis? 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Her father built a real estate empire by chopping up larger apartments into smaller units to provide housing for the waves of Black migrants who fled the South only to encounter deeply segregated Chicago. The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Where his empire state of mind previously prevented him from revealing any weakness, “4:44” finds the 47-year-old unpacking and unlearning the toxic behavior that’s inhibited his emotional maturity until middle age. Review | In a nearly perfect concert, Jay-Z embraces his personal imperfections 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In “history, empires were military and colonial; today, it’s more and more about economics, trade and markets,” he said. Huang Yong Ping Brings 'Empires' of Globalization to Paris 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

But by 1925, Torrio would retire and leave Capone in charge of the Chicago Outfit, a criminal empire built on Prohibition money. How real is "Boardwalk Empire's" Al Capone? 2010-10-11T17:01:00Z

“The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight,” he writes. Books of The Times: J. G. Ballard’s Memoir, ‘Miracles of Life’ 2013-02-05T21:10:03Z

She looked more like a recent law-school graduate in a midsize firm than a big shot prepared to take over an empire. Let’s Talk About the Clothes on “Succession” 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the celebrity chef’s representatives distributed four letters supporting Deen from other companies that work with her, as she fights to keep her business empire from crumbling. Deen’s Name To Be Removed From Caesars Buffets 2013-06-26T18:21:28Z

Though known today for its former retail empire, Marshall Field had an equally important wholesale business that supplied its stores and others. The End of the Wonder Rug 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

Season 2 begins as Teresa strikes a deal with an eccentric smuggler and Camilla fights to rebuild her empire. What’s on TV Thursday: Hackers, Politics and Screams 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The artist and educator Bob Ross, whose chipper television performances encouraged countless amateurs to try landscape painting, built his art empire in unprepossessing surroundings. A Panorama of Design 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

His style made Mr. Kirby a sought-after talent at DC Comics, now a piece of the Time Warner empire, and at Marvel Comics, a recent acquisition of the Walt Disney Company. Jack Kirby of Marvel Comics Left Some Ideas Behind 2010-04-12T21:10:00Z

Mr. Wilford ran his empire from a small Italianate building across from Carnegie Hall where, for three decades, he was president of Columbia Artists. Ronald A. Wilford, Manager to a Host of Legendary Maestros, Dies at 87 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

The first book was the most satisfyingly soap-operatic, with empires at stake and readers close to the action. ‘Edge of Eternity’ Completes Ken Follett Trilogy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Wild” is one, which isn’t so surprising given that culture of empire, boarding schools and cross-dressing. Salt and Sweat, Blood and Guts, but No Girls! 2011-07-22T21:30:32Z

The agency also said the film was evidence that the U.S. is "the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation" and the real "empire of evil." Six North Korea-themed movies that beat Rogen and Franco to the punch 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The show was aired just days after the Daily Telegraph printed details of a secretly obtained recording of Mr Cable saying he had "declared war" on Rupert Murdoch's empire. Politicians on reality TV 2012-11-06T16:30:05Z

"Power Rangers," the kids action TV series that spawned a mighty merchandising empire, will commemorate its birthday with the Thursday panel "Power Rangers: 20 Years and Beyond." Comic-Con to celebrate history, heritage 2012-07-11T14:18:08Z

They enslaved and conquered and built an empire, albeit briefly, that included large swaths of England and Scotland. Vikings in London, Glamorous but Just Like Family 2014-03-28T13:35:00Z

He made a movie about a plucky band of freedom fighters who battle an evil empire — a movie loaded with special effects like no one had seen before. George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits 2012-01-17T16:33:29Z

But even absent empire, many of the Muslims he speaks to find it hard, if not impossible, to fit in. Can Islamic and European Civilizations Coexist? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

But I'm afraid he's also preaching an inescapable historical gospel on how the vanity and corruption of powerful empires lead them to learn the same painful lessons, over and over again. "Centurion": Trapped in the Roman Empire's Vietnam 2010-08-26T01:30:00Z

“I always look at pan-Asian as sort of being racist,” says David Chang, the Northern Virginia native responsible for the Momofuku empire. A ‘pan-Asian’ restaurant may seem dated. In fact, the trend is hotter than ever. 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

After celebrating St Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day and Halloween, the Angry Birds empire continues to expand with a tie-in download for upcoming animation Rio. From Big Freedia to Jools Holland, this week's winners and losers 2011-03-26T00:05:34Z

She likes to say she takes care of the empire – and she does. 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

The Russell family — as well as Rachel’s mother, sister Kim James and brother Donald Edwards, who aids in this empire — call themselves Team Dork for a reason. ‘Dork Diaries’: The book empire built one awkward moment at a time 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

So if he had to choose only one element of his empire – the cookery shows, the restaurants, the books, Fifteen, or the campaigns – which one is closest to his heart? 'No one understands me' 2010-10-11T07:00:00Z

“They will sacrifice anything, from their own peace of mind to the lives of those around them, to build a business empire and then protect that business empire from destruction.” Alan Greenspan’s Ode to Creative Destruction 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Consider this: Martha Stewart’s success, from her earliest catering efforts to her current media empire, all stems from her talent for organization. The 10 books to read in January 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Such museums are monuments, temples mythically recounting an empire’s origins, displaying its accomplishments, affirming its power and its encyclopedic grasp. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z

Straightway the plotline’s pickup in 1984 forces Saint to confront the wages of his criminal ambition as his burgeoning crack empire rips apart his community swiftly and mercilessly. What to watch after "Stranger Things" season 3: Start with "Harlots" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

As Americans sit down on Thanksgiving Day to gorge themselves on the bounty of empire, many will worry about the expansive effects of overeating on their waistlines. Thanksgiving? Instead, let’s atone for the genocide that was committed 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

In one seductive chapter after another, we’re led through an extended elegy that expands from private sorrow to lost empire, a potentially ponderous scope that makes the novel’s gracefulness all the more remarkable. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

While the unabashed peppiness of the superstar may baffle older generations, JoJo’s millions of followers on various social media platforms, consumer-product empire and sold-out concerts are reason enough to believe she is just getting started. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Amazing Jonathan Documentary’ and JoJo Siwa 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately for Aurelius, but perhaps fortunately for audiences, Aurelius’ successor, Commodus, played here by the flamboyant Christopher Plummer, forsakes the Pax Romana and turns Rome into an empire of camp. Movies 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Kinkade's art empire included reproductions of his numerous paintings in hand-signed lithographs, canvas prints, books and posters, calendars, magazine covers, cards, collector plates and figurines. Kinkade: Artist drew many fans, few critical raves 2012-04-07T22:31:09Z

Virtually no one in the American establishment gave serious thought to the here-today, gone-tomorrow possibility that the Soviet threat, the Soviet empire and the Soviet Union itself might someday vanish. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

With the empire imperiled, nothing is more important than finding this insidious killer. 'Iago: A Novel' ? the morning after a bloody mess 2012-01-04T22:57:03Z

Vidal appeared cold and cynical on the surface, dispassionately predicting the fall of democracy, the American empire's decline or the destruction of the environment. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z

That an egomaniacal Hollywood producer with unlimited power might abuse his power and then lie about it when the accusations threatened to disrupt his empire? Perspective | ‘Believe Women’ doesn’t mean women never lie. It means accepting that men sometimes do, too. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

He said online gambling empires like the one depicted in the movie often fail to verify gamblers’ ages and locations, and they offer no guarantee they’re playing fair. Online Poker Thriller ‘Runner’ Quickly Politicized 2013-10-03T20:10:31Z

Some say the book’s overarching message — that stories will outlast political clashes, wars, the collapse of empires and civilizations — has taken on a heightened resonance in light of what Rushdie has endured. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

After Antinous drowned in the Nile in AD130, possibly killing himself, Hadrian proclaimed him a god and displayed his image across the empire. British Museum explores historic secrets of gay love 2013-06-20T18:08:56Z

The Victorians began to enjoy the idea of themselves as latter-day Venetians, independent merchants at the centre of a great trading empire. Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

But this “twilight of formal empire” wasn’t simply the result of American selflessness. ‘How to Hide an Empire’ Shines Light on America’s Expansionist Side 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

In “Good People” an Israeli novelist, Nir Baram, asks what kind of people would choose to serve these empires of falsehood with their eyes open and their minds sharp. Delusion chronicle 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Wood explains how the old order was swept away by two world wars, the crumbling of empire and the swift – and all things considered, mostly surprisingly unfussy – rebuilding of Britain as a post-industrial, multicultural nation. TV highlights 10/08/2012 2012-08-09T18:59:01Z

His first monologue denounced an “empire in decline” while his second addressed how “we begin the wonderful task of building a new world.” Review | In the heart of an ‘empire in decline,’ Blacks’ Myths try to spark another big bang 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

I grew up outside Chicago — the original seat of the Hefner empire — but my primary exposure to Playboy was furtive glances at houses where I was babysitting. Let’s Talk About Hugh Hefner’s Political Legacy 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

When persecuted, as they were in the tsarist empire, they much preferred to flee to the new lands of immigration such as Argentina and the United States, than to the Promised Land. The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand – review 2013-04-18T09:01:01Z

As it turned out, the practice was exceedingly common and casually deployed to create villains in order to sell papers and, when it was useful, to persecute enemies of the Murdoch empire. ‘Hack Attack,’ About a Rupert Murdoch Paper’s Trials, by Nick Davies 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The trio of partners behind Hatoba, the recently opened ramen shop in Navy Yard, are on their way to creating a mini noodle empire. Hatoba goes outside the box with ramen and more in Navy Yard 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

But it also made to show that Walt’s “empire,” everything he had strived for, was, once achieved, a cold, unsatisfying thing. Breaking Bad Watch: Flush of Recognition 2012-09-04T11:34:18Z

It doesn’t help that his character is always hunched over in some dark, wood-panel-lined municipal office, whereas Axelrod strides down the sparkling white hallways of his pristine empire like a very busy, confident demigod. Review: ‘Billions’ Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

But tradition and history will mark many of his stops in an area fought over for centuries and once administered by colonial Britain in the final days of its empire. Prince William starts first British royal visit to Israel,... 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

But operating a global empire is not without its hazards. Reed Hastings Had Us All Staying Home Before We Had To 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

"Star Wars" creator George Lucas facilitated the latest round of "Star Wars" spin-offs when he sold his Lucasfilm empire to The Walt Disney Co. for $4.05 billion last fall. 'Star Wars' reboot director Abrams speaks in Vegas 2013-02-06T18:31:05Z

A video game designer in his mid-40s, Cawthon is the sole creator of one of the past decade’s most successful indie franchises, a low-budget point-and-click horror series that has become its own sprawling empire. A Reclusive Horror Designer Pivoted From Religious Games 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z

“Now in this island of Atlantis,” he wrote, “there was a great and wonderful empire” that “endeavored to subdue the whole of the region within the straits.” My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

After finding himself banned from Italy, the successor state to the Roman empire, Zuckerberg took the Orderus underground, retrained its key adherents in survival skills and hunkered down to plot his revenge. Secret societies and public figures who belong to them – the full, incredible list 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

"Linked and then ultimately separated by empire, the two Georges offer a distinctive perspective on this vital historical period," the institutions said in a statement. George III, George Washington to share limelight in U.S.-UK exhibit 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

The famed seaman was born in Greenock, Scotland around 1645 and moved to New York - then merely an outpost of Britain's budding empire - sometime thereafter. Was Captain Kidd set up? New exhibit airs doubts 2011-05-19T16:46:11Z

The most interesting and imaginative of the emperors, Akbar was a free-thinking humanist who strove for the reconciliation of the different peoples and sects of his empire. Art treasures of the Mughal empire 2012-11-30T22:55:14Z

The Lady of Cao is a reminder of the complex societies that thrived in what is now Peru long before the Inca empire dominated the Andes or Europeans arrived in the Americas. Peru reveals replica of face of ancient female ruler 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

But the story of how Bankman-Fried rose to become one of the world’s youngest billionaires, then saw his empire crumble, presented new challenges for Lewis. The Rise of FTX, and Sam Bankman-Fried, Was a Great Story. Its Implosion Is Even Better. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

His hugely successful media empire billed itself as “fair and balanced” even though it was, by design, a place to nurture the politics of hate. Perspective | Casting Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly is brilliant. But showing Roger Ailes’s malignancy is crucial. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

Rohanda is the proudest achievement of the Canopean empire, a paradise world where humankind's early ancestors have been nurtured into a utopian civilisation, with some gentle interference from the massively more advanced Canopeans. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z

With the announcement of a new book, Rob Delaney's comedy empire is expanding from swiftly from Twitter, standup and board games.  Rob Delaney: from Twitter to board games and books 2013-07-29T14:52:37Z

Before long, his New York empire would begin to shrink, and would sell his men’s wear label to Japanese investors in 2016. Taavo Somer Can Make Anything Cool, Even Golf 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

As this catalogue of imperial rebellions suggests, and as Darwin points out, those in the colonies who caused the British empire the greatest trouble were very often men and women who were "white". Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin - review 2012-12-28T08:00:03Z

In explaining the National Geographic Society’s decision to sell its 127-year-old magazine and other assets to Rupert Murdoch’s media empire Wednesday, chief executive Gary Knell stressed the financial urgency facing his organization. Peril cited in National Geographic sale not evident in financial disclosures 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

We act surprised each time, though our history of torture is continuous with our entire history of empire. Torture and silence: Photos by Andres Serrano confront what we don't talk about 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

Murdoch’s decision to sell part of his empire is the end of an era. Rupert Murdoch: The media mogul says goodbye to much of the company he built 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

Frank talks about how that’s a symptom of a dying empire. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z

The actor has become a high-profile campaigner against the Murdoch empire after he secretly recorded a former News of the World journalist claiming that illegal phone-hacking was a matter of course at the paper. Hugh Grant regrets making film for Murdoch-owned studio 2011-07-15T14:59:05Z

“He became the master of darkness, the master of the dark empire, as he became more powerful, as he started with birtherism and in the campaign,” André says now. Monsieur Vogue Is Leaving Trumpland 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The movie's opening close-ups, of knives being sharpened with gusto, establish a brutal, militant tone that is maintained via a series of confrontations in which soldiers, politicians and rebels vie for control of the empire. 'Coriolanus': Brutal, modern take on Shakespeare's war drama 2012-02-02T21:06:04Z

Similarly, aggressive exploitation of the land by a powerful elite in the Roman empire helped lead to its ruin. TV highlights 04/06/2012 2012-06-03T19:00:02Z

There was no overarching view of U.S. expansion that might lead to the idea of a more far-ranging empire — or period of “imperialism.” Howard Zinn: “The American Empire has always been a bipartisan project” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

The empires of professionalism and big budgets are crumbling.” Manohla Dargis’s Top Films of 2012 2012-12-15T00:37:44Z

So how did the republican-inclined inhabitants of a few hills come to control an empire? Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention 2010-12-08T08:00:00Z

Last February, jihadists in Iraq released video of themselves gleefully smashing statues in the Mosul Museum near the capital city of the ancient Assyrian empire. Propaganda is here to stay. Is there a museum willing to tackle its complexity? 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

But the best adverts for their burgeoning business empires are invariably their own bodies. Has strong become the respectable face of skinny for young women? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Chuck Williams, the founder of the Williams-Sonoma kitchen tools empire who introduced Americans to the concept of upscale cookware, died Dec. 5 at his home in San Francisco. Chuck Williams, founder of Williams-Sonoma kitchen stores, dies at 100 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

The idea that a century-old electronic device, which few people under 40 seem to own, holds the key to his media empire’s next phase might strike some as far-fetched, if not downright delusional. Tyler Br?l?: Mr. Zeitgeist 2012-01-04T23:56:43Z

It is true that Rome never brought the land known as Caledonia fully into the empire. Five historical clangers in Kevin Macdonald's The Eagle 2011-03-15T17:44:43Z

“Both of us grew up the same thing, the same gang man — Y.M.C.M.B.,” he continued, referring to the empire Baby built. Weathering Young Thug’s Tornado 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Fast forward to the mid-19th century, which saw the British and French empires pitted in brutal battle against the Chinese. Huntington archivist finds historic piece of China's largest book 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The Dutch design star, who became known for his scrap-wood cabinets, now runs a veritable empire headquartered on Strijp-R, about three miles across the city. Looking to dodge Amsterdam’s crowds? There are three remarkable towns a short train ride away. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

For those who saw Europe as Britain’s path to a future after empire, St. Pancras became both a literal and symbolic connection to the Continent. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Not an honorable thing to do but more understandable than building an entire athletic empire based on a deception. Americans' ability to forgive, forget fibs depends on who tells them 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The single most prominent family dynasty in Europe of the last 1,000 years, they and their vast, long, and complicated empire are little understood today, especially in the U.S. Royal trappings from 7 centuries of the Habsburg dynasty on view in a new exhibition 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The U.S. picked up on this in its quest for empire. Stop calling Asians "robotic" please 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

Her growing media empire encompasses multiple best-selling books, speaking engagements at companies like Google and Disney, and a one-hour Netflix special. Brené Brown Is Rooting for You, Especially Now 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

News International, the British division of Murdoch's News Corp. empire that owned the tabloid, declined to confirm Desborough was the suspect. 13th arrest in hacking scandal: Hollywood reporter 2011-08-18T21:39:04Z

As well as his animated empire – which includes Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show – he has directed movies, presented the Oscars, produced documentaries and released three easy-listening albums. A futuristic 'dramedy'? Stick to the cartoons, Seth MacFarlane 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

With his empire rapidly diminishing, Frank decides the only option is to destroy it entirely. True Detective: season two, episode seven recap – Black Maps and Motel Rooms 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

It's a valid question — whether a hereditary monarchy should survive in this modern era as we grapple with the legacies of empire and colonialism. An American in Queen Elizabeth's funeral queue: Why I went, and what I found there 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

The rise of European empires, however, brought another category to the fore, namely race, and from the 1880s, histories, bolstered by pseudo-scientific tracts, justified ethnic hierarchies. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z

There is the sense of an era's end, with the music's fatalistic pulse seeming to echo the doomed heartbeat of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Rosas: The Song; Royal Ballet mixed bill 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

The first novel in Farrell’s trilogy about the British empire, this one set in India in 1857, the year of a bloody mutiny against Britain. Jonathan Yardley’s favorite books

With this promotion, Fallon will leave “Late Night,” also part of Michaels’ empire. Lorne Michaels, Tina Fey Reunite for ‘SNL’ Opener 2013-09-25T15:28:37Z

The Portuguese empire, which included colonies in the Americas, Asia and Africa, was also one of the most enduring. Read Your Way Through Lisbon 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

Those designers created empires from a few thousand dollars of personal savings. Fashion Asks: Who Deserves Success? 2010-06-09T18:10:00Z

This is in Paris no less, with all the ostentation that we associate with grand diplomacy in earlier times when it was Europe that was leading the charge with empire. “War Machine” reveals the mentality behind America’s longest war — and the maddest of them all 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

The eight-part series, Taboo, will star Hardy as a rogue adventurer who sets out to build a shipping empire, pitting him against the East India Company. Ridley Scott to direct BBC TV drama 2014-04-04T10:52:41Z

By its maturity the empire had evolved into a “mixed monarchy” that was neither feudal nor democratic, federal nor unitary. Neither holy nor a failure 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Estée Lauder might cringe, but this is how modern beauty empires are built on QVC, one of the largest television shopping networks in the world. Skin Deep: Telling Stories, Selling Beauty 2013-08-07T21:47:19Z

And now, upon those shorts, a small empire is forming. New York, It’s Time to Shop! (Masks on, Please) 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Before the Spanish conquest, it was the heart of Incan empire and its walls were said to have been lined in gold. Cuzco, Peru, Can Be Breathtaking (in More Ways Than One) 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

A trendsetter of refined taste, who popularized empire dresses, developed many new strains of roses and became the first to decorate with a leopard-print rug? Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

That Edwardian period, which really is the dying light of the British empire. ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Damian Lewis on 'Homeland' and 'The Forsyte Saga' 2012-09-21T18:30:54Z

An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal in 2009 denounced the network as "an evil empire that never rests." HGTV builds into a top cable network on foundation of no-frills shows 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Another theme is a reenchantment of our spiritless world to arrest the political and ecological crises that empire and patriarchy have reportedly consigned to us. Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

You’ll see things collapse in your time, the big houses, the empires of glass. 12 Inspiring Graduation Speeches by Amazing Women 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

Empire, he played Jamal Lyon, a talented R&B singer struggling to earn his father’s approval and find his place in his dad’s music empire, and the role was his breakthrough. Jussie Smollett’s image takes new hit with revived charges 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The idea of searching for a home that may never exist, coupled with a fully existential rejection of nationalistic homeland and empire, is readily apparent on “There Is No Year.” Algiers is a political band in a political time. But don’t try to box them in. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Together they live in their comatose father’s house, counting down the days until he dies and they inherit his cracker company empire. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Riverdale’ and ‘Royal Crackers’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Momofuku empire founder-turned Netflix food darling David Chang is back to the streaming platform with a new series in which he and a celebrity guest will explore meals in different cities. Netflix's best new releases in October, from the "Breaking Bad" movie to "Big Mouth" 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

He started out in advertising and built his middle name into a formidable brand that, like the Once-ler’s empire in “The Lorax,” grew bigger and bigger and bigger. Movie Review: ?Dr. Seuss? The Lorax,? With Ed Helms and Danny DeVito 2012-03-01T17:57:47Z

Regularly revised and updated in the years since, the list drives tourism both to and within the state, names and shapes trends, makes kings of newcomers, and topples long-established empires. America’s First Taco Editor Says That Burritos Are Actually Tacos 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z

His outspoken French wife berates him: "You made their empire seem benign and just." Light Falling on Bamboo – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z

Croesus took this as an encouragement to attack King Cyrus; unfortunately, the empire that was crushed was his own. Fortune-told 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Or was it a witty way for the designer Alexander Wang to acknowledge that luxury houses build their empires on handbags? Fashion Review: At Balenciaga, Alexander Wang Does Bags 2014-02-27T14:11:07Z

The favored religion of the Khmer empire during much of its span from the 9th through the 13th centuries was Hinduism. Art Review: Emerald Deities of Fervor and Flux 2010-08-26T22:33:00Z

El Jem’s magnificent Roman amphitheater was then the third largest in the empire. Tunisia After the Revolution 2012-04-06T18:10:20Z

A true Renaissance woman, Camilla teaches piano and researches nutrition when she isn’t overseeing her oil empire. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 4: 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

The move -- in partnership with Specific Media -- is the latest in Timberlake's quietly expanding business and investment empire. Justin Timberlake: Stealth Silicon Valley angel? 2011-06-30T23:57:29Z

While some historians in Great Britain continue to talk about the benefits that the empire brought to India, political movements in India want to make the mythology of Hindutva into historical fact. Thanksgiving? Instead, let’s atone for the genocide that was committed 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Located on the east coast of the Mediterranean, Lebanon was an important part of the classical world, home to the Phoenician civilization and part of the Persian and Roman empires. Ancient statues looted in Lebanese war returned decades later 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

This, after all, was the port city of the capital of Europe's greatest empire. 10 of the best museums and gallleries in Rome 2011-07-13T09:00:00Z

A simple but classic dish of goulash from the Alto Adige in Italy, not Hungary, illustrates the reach of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Fondue Is Just the Beginning 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Like “Makers of Modern Strategy,” it explores the facets of wisdom, temperament and courage that create great leaders and enduring empires. ‘On Grand Strategy’ Review: The War Against Decline and Fall 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Except that Jamie is heir to the McVitie's biscuit empire, so he doesn't really need to make any cuts at all. Made in Chelsea; The Prisoners – TV review 2013-04-09T06:00:00Z

He is also heir to a small empire of Ukrainian dance schools in the New York area. Ukrainian Dance at the Soyuzivka Resort in the Catskills 2012-08-24T22:48:11Z

Jordyn was so close to Kylie Jenner, the youngest of the Kardashian-Jenner sisters, that they lived together, and Kylie, who has her own makeup empire, had named several product lines in Jordyn’s honor. Keeping Up With the Kardashian Cash Flow 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

He ultimately bounced back and rebuilt his empire. J.C. Chandor goes from BP spill to 'Liar's Ball' 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

The pair have him drugged and committed to a sanitarium in rural England as they plot to take over his empire. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

“Ellis’ business empire was too intertwined with American empire for the two to be completely disentangled,” Jacoby writes. A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Now, after one of the more remarkable show business makeovers, Mr. Timberlake oversees a small media and fashion empire, the most recent addition being a stake in MySpace. Leading Man, Miles Beyond the Boy Band 2011-07-17T01:53:01Z

None of this would discourage the empire dreams that would animate many crucial moments in "the 60s". October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z

And while cunning is almost a genetic necessity in the world of film-making, the pursuit of exile will see you consigned, like Ovid, to the farthest reaches of empire. Nikita Mikhalkov has been Burnt By the Sun of state patronage 2010-04-30T10:58:00Z

In his later years, Mr. Oliveira became increasingly preoccupied with history, and in particular with the rise and fall of the Portuguese empire. Manoel de Oliveira, Pensive Filmmaker Who Made Up for Lost Time, Is Dead 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Officials on Monday approved a controversial plan by filmmaker George Lucas to expand his digital empire on historic farmland north of San Francisco. Marin County planners approve George Lucas project 2012-02-28T02:34:16Z

Much of this has been noted in the media, but how it all fits together into what could be called the new global face of empire has escaped attention.  Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z

Nearly a million Britons died on the battlefield, and a nearly a quarter of a million more than that if empire losses are added in. First world war: learning the right lessons from history 2012-10-11T21:43:43Z

In condensing a thousand years of history – from the seventh to the 17th century – it focuses only on “Arab armies” and the rise of early modern Muslim empires. Arts, culture are missing in the teaching of Islam 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ailes is gone, but his media empire, which includes Fox News, has hardly diminished. Worth the Ride: 5 Surprising Exhibition Spaces in Upstate New York 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

There also is archaeological evidence that the ancient empire of Axum, a contemporary of the Roman Empire, traded in these salt slabs. Journey to an Ethiopian volcano located in one of the hottest places on Earth 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

As linchpins of the Marvel empire, having directed two Avengers movies and two Captain America movies, they knew all about international reach; Marvel, after all, reaps much of its enormous profit abroad. The Spies of ‘Citadel’ Have Big Plans: Global Domination 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Hitler decided to rebuild Germany’s armed forces and create a new empire, uniting Germans who lived throughout Europe. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation

These magazines were just part of Fass' empire, which included sweaty-men's mags, lurid confessionals and other sorts of garbage. Comics: Ding dong! The Code is dead 2011-02-02T00:20:12Z

Miranda, who said he was “flabbergasted” by the incident, has since taken to social media and several online review sites to call out Salt Bae and his culinary empire. Salt Bae restaurant called cops on customer who refused to pay for $1G gold-wrapped steaks 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

In the 12th century, under King Suryavarman II, the empire reached its apex, stretching into modern-day Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. In Cambodia, Along the Path to Something Profound 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

In this excerpt, Captain James Duke, in 1808, learns that he is an unexpected heir to the Duke & Sons timber empire. This Week in Fiction: Annie Proulx Discusses Her Upcoming Novel, “Barkskins” 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

I’m no archaeologist, but these vestiges of an empire nine centuries gone were beautiful and intriguing. Homestay among the ruins in Cambodia 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The project’s declared aim is to “measure apologias and critiques of empire against historical data”. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

But despite his best efforts, Mr. Davies was unable to prove complicity within the highest echelons of Mr. Murdoch’s empire. ‘Hack Attack’ Puts a Spotlight on Rupert Murdoch 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Visitors stroll through Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires via one jaw-dropping display after another, right up through a large-scale slide show of the creation of the Turkish Republic in the 20th century. In Istanbul, 8,000 Years of History 2010-09-03T10:00:00Z

She’s Got Some Big Ideas SHE is the mastermind of the one of the faster growing literary empires on the Internet, yet she is virtually unknown. This Life: Maria Popova Has Some Big Ideas 2012-11-30T21:35:52Z

To others, he was a nationalist terrorist whose gunshot heralded four years of slaughter and suffering, as more than 10 million soldiers died and empires crumbled. Serbs unveil statue to 'hero' who set Europe marching to war 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The common soldier tended to remain with one legion for years, even an entire career, but officers were shifted from one end of the empire to the other. The Life of a Soldier 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Leebaert’s emphasis is necessary to demolish the common notion that after 1945 a “bankrupt” Britain and its empire faded from the scene, leaving the United States to become “the world’s policeman.” How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

“I’m building my empire,” he said, in a melodious paisa accent, the Colombian inflection that rises and falls in a singsong way. Maluma, Fashion Chameleon 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

It's just one of the many moments in the conclusion to "The Dropout" that portrays the epic, nearly melodramatic decline of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos empire. What comes after "The Dropout" ending: What Elizabeth Holmes, Erika Cheung and others are doing now 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Fragments of Chinese silk have been found across the Roman empire, from Palmyra in the Syrian desert to Holborough in Kent. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z

Lee meets Glen Gondo, the affable Sushi King of Texas, whose empire not only comprises Japanese food but bastardized takes on other Asian cuisines as well. Chinese Food and the Joy of Inauthentic Cooking 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Bourdain's empire was synonymous with a reverence for edible culture, a respect for indulgence not ostentatious but inevitable: beer in an alley, fritters in Little Guatemala. Chasing Anthony Bourdain’s “perfect little things”: Kitchen work and what I hungered for 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

In an 1889 remodeling, the monument acquired a panoramic 360-degree frieze about initiating trade with natives abroad, at the apogee of French academic painting and the height of France’s commercial empire. Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

After the war, the BBC’s foreign services became a prop to the Commonwealth, the new euphemism for “empire.” A Century of the BBC, a ‘Quasi-Mystical’ Part of England’s Psyche 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

But how did Wolf, with his TV empire to tend, find time to be an author? A new novel from Dick Wolf joins his TV empire 2014-01-14T14:28:40Z

One of the lessons Vidal would use his rhetorical ability and agility to amplify was the historical warning of Ancient Rome: “A nation cannot be a republic and an empire at the same time.” The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

In a statement, Mattel said the campaign celebrates “some of the world’s most famous swimsuit legends – like Barbie – who have gone on to break boundaries, build empires and shape culture.” Sports Illustrated’s absurd, trolling Barbie cover 2014-02-13T18:49:00Z

The show still runs 2½ hours as it watches Antony squirm between his attraction to Cleopatra and his duty to the Roman empire. Review | ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ amps up the glamour at Folger 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

It’s mostly a series of accounts of wars he waged, from the Gallic War to the African War, which turned the Roman republic into an empire. New & Noteworthy 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

The temple contains a monumental frieze of basalt relief sculptures created by the ancient Hittites, whose empire once stretched from Anatolia to northern Syria. Syrian Conflict Imperils Historical Treasures 2012-08-15T22:13:47Z

The story centers on a frustrated official of the Spanish empire who is marooned in a dead-end post — a scenario ripe for Ms. Martel’s visually innovative brand of psychodrama. Venice Film Festival Opening Stars Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

That you build an empire and then it all implodes. Jamie Oliver's FoodTube: why he's taking the food revolution online 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

Even when The Onion was just a scruffy free weekly found in Madison, Wis., vestibules, its conceit was that it was the centerpiece of a big media empire. Onion blooming on TV 2011-01-11T00:34:00Z

“The self-made billionaires are all people who are empire builders. ... They’re on a quest for continual expansion, so that number matters to them.” How ranking the world’s wealthy became a business 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

At its height the city was the centre of an empire that covered, among other territories, all of modern Syria and Israel and parts of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Stones that speak 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Armenia “was once the biggest empire outside of the Roman Empire,” said Mr. Birch, who is of Armenian descent. Hong Kong's Conceptual Circus 2010-05-10T11:00:00Z

The deal initially gave rise to speculation that Mr. Brant, who also owns Interview magazine, might have been moving to divest himself of his art-publishing empire. Peter Brant Takes Over Art Magazines 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

A book billed as an “end-of-empire novel” might easily lose both reader and character in the high-altitude, low-­oxygen air of abstraction, especially when the empire in question is the largest state in recent history. Book Review Podcast: 'All That Is Solid Melts Into Air' 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

We watched as the Kardashians became a baffling but irrefutable empire and spawned a new genre of television in which the venal was celebrated, the petty encouraged. Bruce Jenner's story is his alone to tell, so why all the wild talk? 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hardwick is a stand-up comedian, podcast pioneer and digital media entrepreneur who built an empire around nerd culture. Chris Hardwick’s AMC Talk Show Yanked After Abuse Allegations 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

This seems to be way season five is expanding its world, showing the level upon levels of the drug trade, beyond Albuquerque, beyond Gus’ old empire, beyond the cartels. Breaking Bad Watch: Special Sauce 2012-07-23T12:00:38Z

Goodwin found that more than 175 statues, fountains and other artworks across Britain are dedicated to the monarch, who oversaw the expansion of Britain’s colonial empire in the 19th century. In the U.K., Public Art Shifts Toward Black Experiences 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

“How did the family build its fortune and empire under this system?” Wildenstein Trial to Lift a Veil on Opaque Art World Dealings 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

“Fixer Upper” became a mansion-size hit, the Gaineses celebrities with an empire that includes a sprawling Waco shopping complex, vacation rentals, restaurants, paint and décor lines, a Target home collection and a quarterly magazine. As ‘Fixer Upper’ Ends, HGTV Builds a Roster of Power (Tool) Couples 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

"If you believe all this, and don't believe in the existence of cathedrals and Chaucer, congratulations – to borrow the words of Joseph Brodsky, 'you're in The Empire, friend' – the empire of intellectual complacency." Salman Rushdie says he'll 'get medieval' on Times Literary Supplement 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

A decade later, “docusoaps” such as the “Real Housewives” empire were the hottest thing — until they weren’t. Keeping it real 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Earthquakes, equity and empire: the best films at Cannes this year Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Oliver Stone's sequel, of sorts, to his totemic 1987 greed-is-good movie. Ridley Scott: Creator of worlds 2010-05-10T20:30:00Z

And the long questionable motives and tactics of the Murdoch empire are now rightfully under scrutiny. WSJ and Fox defend Murdoch 2011-07-18T14:01:00Z

“The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan” At the outset of World War II, the Japanese empire stretched across 20 million square miles and seven time zones. ‘The War Below:’ subs’ role in WWII’s U.S.-Japan conflict 2013-08-24T15:12:17Z

And through it all, there was the perpetual question of the F-word, which his empire was built on and played off of. Perspective | Hugh Hefner was a feminist (if you believe feminism is pretty women having sex with you) 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

This time, you captain an airborne steam locomotive, which is touring the archipelago of an alternate British empire. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

"The whole traditional publishing system, that great empire, is doomed," Berezin says. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z

This large, simply appointed restaurant is popular with students whose parents are visiting, and is one of many restaurants in Raymond Blanc’s Brasserie Blanc empire. In Search of Oxford 2014-03-21T16:22:35Z

Egypt, at the time, was a province of the Ottoman empire. David McVicar's Aida: the sound and the fury 2010-04-01T21:15:00Z

Sebastian shelves the death episode, for fear that its revelation will disrupt the continuity of the series and disturb the health of its merchandising empire. “Kidding,” Reviewed: Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry Reunite to Conjure Whimsy, Dread, and Puppets 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

The first two hours, as Mr. Madoff builds his illusory empire and at first evades detection, are largely played for comedy, even farce. Review: ‘Madoff,’ What He Was Thinking 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

This was the edge of the empire, part of the shifting territory that would later be Poland but is now Ukraine. A Timely Biography Traces Joseph Roth’s Accounts of Fascism 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

Does Cleopatra love Antony or does she love the fact that he is one of the three most powerful men in the Roman empire? Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

Ms. Munro’s northern world is a place of drab, wintry tones and buttoned-up emotions, a far cry from Mr. Almodóvar’s empire of passions. Review: Another Woman on the Verge in Almodóvar’s ‘Julieta’ 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

History has until now had it that Indians were pawns or pieces moved about and wielded by various colonial empires. Two new Native American histories -- one tragic, one a revelation 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

Knowing Disney the empire will keep reappearing more times than the daleks. Disney buys firm behind Star Wars 2012-10-31T11:22:10Z

Mr. Maal introduced one song, “Sarala,” with a brief lecture on the ancient Malian empire and a dedication to educating the children of Africa. Music Review: Baaba Maal at Fillmore New York 2010-05-02T22:11:00Z

His plan was to turn the closed plant into the US outlet of Fuyao, his global windscreen and automobile glass empire. The Obamas' first film: will American Factory be the biggest documentary of 2019? 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Glasgow was then one of the wealthiest cities in the British empire, but as we know, the more millionaires a place has the worse off are their poorest countrymen. John Boyd Orr by Alasdair Gray 2011-08-12T21:55:16Z

His views on race and empire were anachronistic even for those times. Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Back in the 80s, as former film star President Ronald Reagan was decrying the Soviets as an “evil empire”, cinema screens were similarly teeming with inflated male flesh. Brawn again: why Hollywood's muscle heroes are bigger than ever 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

But the real focus of the show was the range of accessories that look to be an important extension of Mr. Armani’s already vast empire. Fashion Review: Raf Simons at Jil Sander and Tomas Maier Redefine Sensual 2012-02-26T18:29:25Z

Henry Dunbar, the CEO of a global media empire, seems to have lost it. Edward St. Aubyn sets aside autobiographical fiction in 'Dunbar' and updates Shakespeare's 'King Lear' 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

For recent James Beard Award-winning restaurateur Rich Melman, it began 40 years ago with an involuntary emission of sound, which led to his restaurant empire. 'American Idol': Lady Gaga gives microphone advice 2011-05-12T02:06:53Z

“Seventh Heaven” juxtaposes thoughts of euphoric love and disillusionment — “We shoot for the empire/Land in the dust pile” — amid shimmering keyboards, skeins of intertwined guitars and ever more buoyant choruses. The Playlist: Mavis Staples Warns of Deadly Force, and 9 More New Songs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

The strategy is a curious one for a city with a 2,500-year history spanning the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires. Beyond Kitsch in Skopje 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

"The older soldiers who had been through the war were still hanging on to the idea of empire and imperial Britain," said Boorman. John Boorman catches up with alter ego in 'Queen & Country' 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

That will show visitors the evolution from Reagan's "evil empire" message to another signature phrase from his foreign policy: "Trust, but verify." Archives shows rarely seen Reagan documents in DC 2011-01-05T19:39:19Z

The key to really making it big is investing in a number of different sectors to maximize influence and build an empire. And the Most Powerful Woman In the World Is... 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

New Spain provided legal protections for the fugitives, despite a long history of African and Indigenous enslavement throughout the Spanish empire. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Apple built an empire on hermetically sealed systems with sleek, minimalist designs. Apple Opens the iMessage Door, and the Ephemera Rushes In 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

In the days of the Ottoman empire, these carpets were used to decorate the palaces. A Late-19th-Century Oushak Carpet Is on the Block 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Russia incorporated much of the region into its empire by the 1880s. 'Colors of the Oasis': Vibrant textiles at Seattle Asian Art Museum 2012-03-29T20:32:09Z

But his optimistic nature also found “a blank slate, ready to be filled in,” and he wasted no time building one of Southern California’s first great business empires. Review: ‘The King and Queen of Malibu,’ a History of Paradise 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

There were a few exceptions: Medieval monks used dedicated spaces to copy manuscripts, and the Medici family originally created Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, now the world famous museum, for their vast business empire. We hate the office. We love the office. Do we want to go back? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

And the golden age of improvisation flourished in Chicago, with Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Stephen Colbert and others developing their skills, before the Upright Citizens Brigade established an expanding empire on the coasts. Comedy Is Booming. I Can’t Wait for the Bust. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Similar texts are all over this exhibition, dutifully explaining every last fox-headed kid as an allegory of race and empire. How Yinka Shonibare's sculpture park exhibition shoots to thrill 2013-03-03T21:59:01Z

“You have to understand what it was like to be a Roman empire and to find some barbarian tribe riding into Rome in 476 A.D.,” Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z

A quick look at sort of the history of realist political thought will reveal that no empire worth its salt has ever advised being sincere. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z

The museum itself is the brainchild of retail juggernaut Steve Green, of the Hobby Lobby empire. Inside the Museum of the Bible gift shop: Crucifix necklaces, fuzzy pens and a $125,000 ruby-encrusted pomegranate 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

There were long-distance currencies as far back as ancient Egypt, and the Roman empire… But those ended up hoarded. Don’t blame the Google bus riders: The company “doesn’t look at the employees as any more human than it does the residents of San Francisco” 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

The point seems to be that London was once the epicentre of empire, a trading nation whose instinct is to absorb influences while periodically, peevishly, attempting to prove national superiority. London: The Modern Babylon – review 2012-08-02T19:00:01Z

From the time of its empire to well into the 20th century, Spain was a country so immediately recognizable by its music that eventually guitars and boleros became clichés. An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Farrar became the paper’s first crossword puzzle editor, the founding dynast of the Hapsburgs of the crossword empire. Here’s Looking at You, Grid: A History of Crosswords and Their Fans 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

But Broadway is just one element of the “Hamilton” empire. Lin-Manuel Miranda Brings ‘Hamilton’ to a Troubled but Appreciative Puerto Rico 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

Early in their reign, George and Mary traveled their vast colonial empire, promoting the image of the British monarchy. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

In the premiere, a Palestinian businessman who was close to her family’s empire is killed. TV highlights: ‘The Honorable Woman’ premieres on SundanceTV

With his loathing of American empire, Greene would be unsurprised to find Big Pharma circling. Why The Third Man is an essential primer for no-deal Brexit 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The Nazis were creating a third great empire for the German people. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation

“People keep talking about New York as an empire, a culture that can be exported,” Mr. Gartenfeld said. Inside Art: Botticelli and Batoni Fetch Fetch Record Auction Prices 2013-01-31T23:00:38Z

Most of the sites featured in the book originated in the medieval age of Islamic empires, as the faith spread from the harsh Arabian desert into new landscapes and climates. Review | A look at some of the most beautiful gardens in the world 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

For ages after the lawn has returned to its accustomed wintry green, the shrinking white lump of the snowman clings on under the carrot and pipe like the medieval Byzantine empire around Constantinople. Now we await the floodwaters, this time with a peppering of pipes and carrots 2013-01-27T00:04:04Z

He leaves us with insights into the reach and sweep of its empire and an appreciation of how precarious life was for slaves and freemen and soldiers. Review: ‘Dynasty,’ Tom Holland’s Chronicle of the First Five Emperors Who Ruled Ancient Rome 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

“Correction: a black woman built an empire of humanity-themed TV shows. Do your homework. Get woke. Black is not a theme. I am not a token. But I am a night of television.” Women who work: how Shonda Rhimes' TV shows excel in the workplace 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

So swiftly dismissing both the ascendancy of Arab empires themselves and the diversity within those empires is a fault that I daresay would not be tolerated with reference to any other group. Revisiting the Arab Spring, in Letters to the Editor 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

The story of a young American woman’s romance with the scion of a jewelry empire, “Destiny” was rife with sexual detail. Sally Beauman, Author Whose Advance Set a Record, Dies at 71 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Britain was living through the end of empire; everything was shrinking. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z

We link the seasonal transition with childhood turning to adolescence; republics becoming empires; hope turning to despair, and so much else. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

And that will be a perfect opening for the final break-up of the empire. Q&A: Masha Gessen Sees a Bleak Future for Putin's Russia 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

Under the Magic Johnson Enterprises umbrella, the entrepreneur oversees a vast empire of fitness centers, restaurants and other businesses. Magic Johnson joins 'The Marvel Experience' as investor, board member 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

But the cultural remnants of France’s colonial empire still reveal themselves in many intriguing ways. Tasting France in the Cuisines of India, Vietnam and Beyond 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

The Via Egnatia was constructed in the third century BC, probably on top of an earlier road, the only land link between the eastern and western regions of the Roman empire. The great Eastern European road trip, part two: road trip across Albania 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

By the end of the 1990s, Régine’s international empire had dwindled to a handful of clubs in France, a place in Istanbul and a restaurant-lounge in New York called Rage. Régine, Whose Discotheque Gave Nightlife a New Dawn, Dies at 92 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z

“The empire had collapsed. The whole business of trying to placate the former colonial people — my art suddenly served that purpose,” said Bowling. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

Like Richelieu, Kissinger believes that a constellation of states, each striving for its own selfish interests, and offsetting rivals, can bring order in a way no church or empire can. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Marshall's story may be an entertaining invention, but enemies on the Roman empire's fringes did indeed use what we would now call terrorism to try to thwart it. Centurion kicks off British sword and sandals film wave 2010-04-22T22:15:00Z

“Between Two Kingdoms” drives home the fact that, where cancer is concerned, it takes an empire. Suleika Jaouad Does Not Want to Be Your Mountaintop Sage 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

With Portugal’s economy crumbling, there was a poignancy in experiencing the vestiges of its once vast empire through these fellow visitors. Frugal Traveler Blog: A Portuguese University Town, Both Familiar and Foreign 2012-01-03T21:32:27Z

It eventually transformed into a reality empire, consisting of two successful spin-off series — The Hills and The City, which were allegedly scripted and edited to alter viewers’ perceptions. Laguna Beach, 10 Years Later: All This Drama Started With the Black and White Party 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

If the emergence of advanced civilisations is common, then the obvious explanation is that a typical extraterrestrial empire doesn't last long. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z

Their record deal with Fiction - part of the Universal empire - has now expired. White Lies star writes theatre score 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gaddis notes that Philip, after conquering Portugal and its colonies, believed that he could defeat the world’s greatest empire since Rome, but the English Channel and the Royal Navy sent his armada to ruin. ‘On Grand Strategy’ Review: The War Against Decline and Fall 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

There is no record of Rubinstein and Arden’s having met, though they ruled their fast-expanding beauty empires from the same Manhattan neighborhood in the same era. Review: In ‘War Paint,’ Sing a Song of Face Creams 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Whether out of desire or curiosity or some benighted idea of the obligations of Britain to its long-lost empire, she lets him in, and then lets him in again the next day. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

The show is not so much classic A&E as it is emblematic of its impresario in chief, another colony in the bizarre pop culture empire Wahlworld. The TV Watch: The Wahlberg Family Business Grows With ‘Breaking Boston’ 2014-03-12T21:09:49Z

Pryor on Wednesday denied a claim that the winner of a contest put on by the "Girls Gone Wild" video empire will intern in Pryor's office this summer. Senator: No 'Girls Gone Wild' intern this summer 2012-04-25T16:57:08Z

Phyfe also built a real estate empire, acquiring 18 properties in New York. Antiques: A Portraitist Considered the ?Titian of Louisiana? 2011-12-15T21:47:17Z

In the early 1800s, Napoleon’s dream of a French empire in North America was fading. French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Vee is building her empire by having her lieutenants dole out samplers of heroin. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Taystee! How Could You? 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

We don’t need membership in the galactic empire to understand the urgency of our situation here on Earth. An Astrophysical Approach to Our Environmental Crisis 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

In Mr. Lemay, who shared an Israeli background, he found someone akin to a brother to help move furniture and then build a far-reaching empire. Moving Magnate Is the Impresario Behind Mana Contemporary 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

In a statement Monday, Moore said he was “bursting with fiction, bursting with prose” and thanked his publisher for its commitment to “expanding the empire of the word.” Alan Moore working on short stories, 5-volume fantasy series 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

There are underexplored themes here — cultural collision, whether empires are best built by assimilation or force — that might have given weight to the proceedings. ‘Marco Polo,’ Fur-and-Armor Drama From Netflix 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

One was the cook he imagined Mr. Chang wanted him to be, making food that was more in line with the rest of the Momofuku empire. Momofuku Seiobo Champions Caribbean Food With Australia’s Bounty 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

With victory in the Seven Years War, the ministry was hoping to achieve calm military administration of the Crown’s big, new North American empire west of the mountains. An excerpt from William Hogeland’s “Autumn of the Black Snake” excerpt 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Her shoe collection is the latest addition to a lucrative empire that lends her name to 17 lines of products from handbags and fragrances to clothing. AP Interview: Hilton says she's the 'original' 2011-03-30T01:57:12Z

To put his domains in order, and stop the spread of the Lutheran heresy once and for all, he called for a “diet”—a meeting of the estates of the empire. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

Has it been intimidating, taking on the Murdoch empire? Sienna Miller: 'I've bought my freedom' 2011-03-08T21:30:01Z

When he was 16 he traveled to Vienna, capital of the Austrian empire. Happy 250th birthday to Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

For a Britain that was fast losing its empire, the conquest of Everest was greeted with nationalistic euphoria. Jan Morris, Celebrated Writer of Place and History, Is Dead at 94 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Both places were part of the Venetian empire, but closer to Milan than to Venice, so their culture was strongly affected by Milan’s Spanish Habsburg rulers. Review | First Moroni exhibition in North America features one of the most celebrated portraits of the Renaissance 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

"She would hardly have formed a relationship with the family" - which currently owns the entire Chanel brand empire - "or counted Jewish people among her close friends and professional partners," it says. New book claims Coco Chanel was Nazi spy 2011-08-17T22:16:05Z

With that permission, Mr. Whitburn built an empire of music research unlike any other. Joel Whitburn, Tireless Researcher of Music Charts, Dies at 82 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

The intensity and scale of the fighting was the trigger for a wave of political, economic and social upheavals that destroyed empires and forged national identities, sometimes for the better, very often for the worse. A most terrible year 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

The sport has a rich history in the former British empire. When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport 2011-07-17T02:00:06Z

A reduced version of the map was used by Captain James Cook, who claimed Australia for the British empire when he reached the east coast almost 130 years later. Australia can breathe easy after 17th century map restored 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Hit period crime drama Peaky Blinders is returning to the BBC and sees the Shelby family attempt to expand their criminal empire south, from their home in Birmingham to London. Murphy returns as 'street fighting man' 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

The idea of improving yourself by reading the right books and pronouncing the right platitudes predates Winfrey's chipper empire by some 21/2 centuries. Post-Oprah, Americans still hooked on self-help 2011-07-12T21:45:00Z

Trailblazers and inspired business entrepreneurs Rubinstein and Arden were ardent competitors who would not utter each other’s names, let alone reportedly meet, despite their beauty empires operating blocks apart. A divine showing of divas put the ‘broad’ in Broadway 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

By the end, the structure, the empire is starting to fall apart; the center won’t hold. Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

In his final incarnation, living in the remote Marquesas, he is at once a product of an empire and a champion of its victims. Gaugin, Van Gogh and Doctor Who 2010-09-27T13:38:00Z

Shine runs the programming side of the media empire, while Abernethy, also a longtime Fox News executive, runs the business side of the company, including ad sales, finance and distribution. Bill Shine, Fox News co-president, resigns from network amid harassment scandal 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Like Cristobal Balenciaga, Norell was a hands-on creator with little interest in empire. ‘Norell: Dean of American Fashion’ Review: The First Icon of Fashion Avenue 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

The British empire was larger and lasted longer. The full story of the British empire is yet to be told 2012-12-28T19:31:12Z

The British retreated from empire once its corrupting decadence became manifest. Britain at the Turn of the 20th Century Was Dealing With a Lot, Badly 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Having once railed against “the evil empire”, Reagan’s animating purpose towards the end of his term was, he said, to “strive for peace”. You're hired! How TV carried Reagan and Trump to the White House 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

There's also Limestone Corner, the empire's actual furthest north, where Hadrian's men got fed up with huge boulders and abandoned them in the middle of splitting the rock into neat stones. Britain's best views: Hadrian's Wall 2010-04-06T13:21:00Z

He, a man who built his empire on clothes, believes there’s more to life than clothes, that, in fact, “we have too much clothes — but you’re in business, you keep going.” Ralph Lauren Restarts the Fantasy 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

I was drawn to the idea that we’re going to see a woman who has been self-made, who has built and created this career and this family life, this empire, really, on her own. Television: ‘Nashville,’ the TV Series Starring the City 2012-10-07T05:09:02Z

“Macedonia and Albania were the last to break away from the Ottoman empire in 1913, were as Macedonian neighbours like...” Got 200K? Buy Steinbeck's Library 2010-06-21T17:54:21Z

I wish I could provide clear answers to this, but the Ali family, which owns the budding half-smoke empire, does not want to discuss its relationship with Cosby. Why Ben’s Chili Bowl hasn’t rushed to remove traces of Bill Cosby 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Such talismans of empire and royalty can seem anachronistic, at least to this American reader. At 82, legendary travel writer Colin Thubron shows no signs of slowing down 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Government art collection It has witnessed governments and empires collapse, heard the gossip of mandarins and seen the rise and fall of many a calculating politician. Government Art Collection to go under public scrutiny for first time 2010-12-03T01:01:00Z

The second season of “Succession,” on HBO, about a leaky media empire and the terrible people trying to keep it afloat, inspired a whole host of Internet humor this year. The Best Jokes of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The origins of this religion, whose adherents now number about a quarter of a million, go back to the Persian empire and, if not to Cyrus himself, then certainly to his immediate successors. Babylonian relic to visit US with historic message of tolerance 2012-11-27T19:03:48Z

The movie, a rare release from Disney that does not rely on synergy with other parts of the company’s entertainment empire, was most popular with older ticket buyers. ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ is No. 1 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Android, free Epic gaming on a miniature scale: this is an MMO-strategy number along the lines of Civilization, allowing you to build an empire, conquer others, capture creatures and expand your domain. Best apps: our experts pick 50 of the most dazzling, useful and novel 2010-12-26T00:04:04Z

The Dutch, in particular, were, circa the 17th century, empire builders and developed an expansive artistic vision to match. TV highlights 11/04/2013 2013-04-11T06:00:08Z

Consensus, achieved by distributing power, made the empire’s decentralised structure an advantage rather than a weakness. Neither holy nor a failure 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

"For the younger ones, it was clear to us everything was going to change. The British Empire was the biggest empire the world had ever known, and within a few years that was all gone." John Boorman catches up with alter ego in 'Queen & Country' 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

It is American art that succeeds in challenging the simple and dangerous pompom waving for American empire. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

In Blagoveshchensk, he spent time with a Chinese businesswoman who runs a small empire of Russian hotels and restaurants. Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

A thinly veiled satire of the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspaper empire, "Great Britain" is a play with a surfeit of topical relevance. Rupert Murdoch-inspired satire 'Great Britain' opens in London 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Julian Foxon If Aeneas had not ditched the Carthaginian queen, the Roman empire would not have existed, let alone spread to Somerset. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z

Mostly, Zama — an official of the Spanish empire born in the Americas yet proudly, insistently Spanish — sees himself, as if gazing into in an enormous mirror. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Esther is the daughter of a chief advisor to the leader of Khazaria, a Jewish empire between the Caspian and Black Seas. Writing a novel about Jews set in 1942—without Hitler: “Once you mention Hitler’s name, his mustache is in the room. The stakes change” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Decadents are often aristocrats who didn’t do their ancestral duty of going out to defend the empire. The Kanye-Bowie connection: “It’s songs about fame and about decadence, about this dissolute life and how you’re quite unhappy” 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

Before his downfall, Robert created a $1.6 billion empire hawking his silly inventions. | 'Father of Invention': ?Father of Invention,? With Kevin Spacey - Review 2011-10-13T23:24:32Z

For Chad Feehan, who created the series under the umbrella of Taylor Sheridan’s production empire, such questions were a challenge, as he looked to fill in details of the hero’s under-documented life. In ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves,’ Fiction Fills In Where Tall Tales Leave Off 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z

If the rupture of the empire wasn’t bad enough, it soon became clear the dissolution of Christendom would not stop there. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

Outside, the capital rumbled from republic to empire and back to monarchy. Beyond Architecture, a Builder of Lusty Fantasies 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

You don't build an empire by being rash. News Corp withdraws bid for BSkyB 2011-07-13T20:36:57Z

But the wars that rage across the wider country – there are graphic evocations of life in the trenches during the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign – signal the end of the Ottoman empire and momentous change. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

We're infiltrating a dying empire, like the Scots did when they took over Westminster politics. David Mitchell on Brits as Hollywood superheroes 2011-02-06T00:05:59Z

Based on the award-winning novels by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, the new Apple TV series "Foundation" follows a band of exiles on a mission to rebuild civilization after the fall of a galactic empire. "Foundation": An introduction to five major themes in the work of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

He had been head of the Sunday school, chairman of the parish council and a recipient of the British empire medal. Family life 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

Emperor Constantine imposed sweeping reforms across Rome, transforming the pagan empire into a Christian one. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

He experimented with and masterfully wielded the lightning rods of partisan politics, tribalism and demagoguery to jolt the American right wing into endorsing the political arms of his empire. What the Roger Ailes saga can teach us about tyrants, power and protection 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Russia this week launched a nationwide, six-month festival in honor of Chekhov, who lived throughout the Russian empire working as a doctor, including a stint in the Far East island of Sakhalin on the Pacific. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z

If the show plays out this way, then Ford would have killed his own father to build his empire, using parts of him to create another host with amnesia. The 11 Most Interesting 'Westworld' Fan Theories 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 16th century they confronted the majestic and cruel Aztec empire, whose art is as searing and vibrant as its sacrifices were terrible.• Say hello to the rest of the planet – the week in art 2013-06-28T12:24:11Z

The president is obsessed with the idea of exploited women in peril, which is odd for a man whose empire was partially built on exploited women in bikinis. Perspective | Why does the president keep talking about women and duct tape on the border? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Some of the most eye-catching investors in his real estate empire since he won the Republican nomination hail from countries where there is a faint line between business and politics. A Conservative’s Case Against Donald Trump 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

“If we can build empires in our careers, why can’t we build families without husbands?” Can an ambitious black woman "have it all"? "Being Mary Jane" finds the answer in the end 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Critics saw in the closure a long overdue chance to cut back Murdoch's ability to influence British politicians through his global media empire. Last edition of News of the World sells fast in London 2011-07-10T14:40:00Z

In 1990, when a law was passed encouraging private enterprise, restaurants and even restaurant empires began to grow out of some of the most successful streetside soup pots and other cherished recipes. In Vietnam, Street Food Moves From Sidewalk to Storefront 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

In an age before near-universal digital access to everything, Rudolf’s collection was a prodigious display of his authority and the reach of his empire. Bartholomeus Spranger’s wild, weird and voluptuous art at the Met

With the Greek expansion of their empire in the 4th century B.C. to cover much of Egypt, Babylon and Persia, Greek citizens found themselves with far more territory that could be considered safe to visit. How we lost the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

It does its job with some of the shrewdness and panache Walker demonstrated in building her hair-care empire. Review: In Netflix’s ‘Self Made,’ an Unlikely Entrepreneur 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Drop your anxieties about our crumbling empire in that little plastic dish near the metal detector, then just keep walking. Review | Step inside the Taylor Swift biodome 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

For all its high art and ballgowns, the city that was once the nerve centre of a global empire remains varied and cosmopolitan. Hitting a different note in Vienna 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

"Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role," said Rusk. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z

Netflix, which is sprinkling some of its 2020 releases into theaters, has built a subscription empire on the belief that people would just as soon stay home and surrender to the algorithm. How Much Do You Really Miss Going to the Movies? 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

A portrait of Britain at the end of empire, with a bottomless capacity for the hilarious and ridiculous, it affirms Taylor’s place among the best fictional minds of her generation. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

What empire hasn’t, in the end, gone down? Three failing experiments? 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

She's the face and mind behind the expensive and controversial beauty and wellness empire GOOP, which has featured products like the Jade Yoni Egg and Psychic Vampire Repellent. Gwyneth Paltrow is a human after all? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

They prefer plucky individuals who battle evil empires, fight aliens or explore new worlds without government interference or military oversight. We crashed a science-fiction writers convention to ask about Trump’s ‘Space Force’ 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Once you start to think along these lines, you see the shadows of empires everywhere. How the Dead Hand of Imperialism Continues to Influence World Politics 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

With deft choices, she illuminates some of the shocking truths about a Muslim country that emerged at the end of Britain’s Indian empire in 1947 with the stated intention of honoring other religions. Books of The Times: Conflicts and Contradictions of Pakistan 2011-08-08T12:00:00Z

Take her wordplay at face value and she’s comparing her romantic ruin to the collapse of an empire. Review | Hailey Whitters made the year’s deepest country album. Just look beneath the surface. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Klum added $20 million to her empire by continuing her evolution from model to businesswoman, adding a clothing line and a new children's show to her successful run with the reality series "Project Runway." Supermodels making more money than ever 2011-05-06T17:52:05Z

The Ambassador is a linchpin of a tightly integrated trucking empire. Why One Rich Man Shouldn't Own An International Bridge 2012-01-12T22:55:52Z

Now that their mother is dead, they're making plans to divide up her empire. 'Jupiter Ascending's' cool worlds sink on Wachowskis' weak plot 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Even its empire, the world’s biggest, was largely a product of European rivalries. Historians and Brexit 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

After all, part of what they see is representation, but part of it is also access to power, wealth and empire, all of which are implied and enshrined by the acquisitions of a museum. The Incredible Whiteness of the Museum Fashion Collection 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

The house is a catalyst for her imagination and a sparker of ideas for her design empire. Martha Stewart Opens the Doors to Her Historic Maine Estate 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

“It’s like return of the empire in some ways,” the buyer said. TV networks emerge as obstacles on YouTube's hunt for ads 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

She was carried to the remote corners of empire as a talisman of English values; hardened soldiers in both world wars hung on to her disabused clear-sightedness. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z

I came away freshly reminded of, our complicated role in a remote country that is, wrote columnist Maureen Dowd, “more than the ‘graveyard of empires.’ The female psyche is focus of 2 new Seattle shows 2013-06-06T20:39:46Z

The case of Kublai Khan, the leader of the Mongol empire in the late 1200s, is an early example of this innovation. The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

In doing so, it translates the abstract chronicle of the rise and fall of empire, and of the various classes of people who are part of it, into visual material that will outlast its moment. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

In the east, the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were threatened by ethnic groups seeking to break away or expand their reach. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation

And then how that said immigrant whipped those dreams while having a stomach full of nothing into a mega empire. "There was a lot of envy at Black success": Director Dawn Porter on new Tulsa Massacre documentary 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

I didn’t really understand how the financial architecture of Kinkade’s gallery empire worked, and I sure didn’t share their taste in wall art, but these people struck me as decent and sincere. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

Murdoch's far-flung media empire includes the Post and the Fox Network. Editor of NY Post's cheeky Page 6 headed for LA 2010-10-13T18:47:00Z

Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria, a good place for a historian of empire as well as a good year for a communist. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z

It is described by NBC as a "provocative new drama about a time and place that challenged the social mores, where a visionary entrepreneur created an empire and an icon changed American culture." TV watchdog says "Playboy Club" glamorizes porn 2011-07-27T19:00:19Z

Judging by the response to Nigel Biggar’s Ethics and Empire project, the academic consensus is that any kind of defence of empire, however limited, is simply not intellectually credible or morally acceptable. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

But a closer match is the empire Ralph Lauren built, where stylists scout thrift stores and old magazines, and produce simulacra of alternate worlds. You May Be Surprised to Hear That Restoration Hardware Is Doing Great 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Magic Mike is already a bit of an empire. ‘Magic Mike’ Heads for the Stage, as a Broadway-Bound Musical Starting in Boston 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

According to the British Academy, Latin was used by scientists, diplomats, philosophers and lawyers for more than 1,000 years after the end of the Roman empire. Medieval Latin dictionary completed 2013-12-09T14:21:26Z

As Figes makes clear, the empire’s autocratic rule suppressed the kind of civil society that would be crucial for the development of modern European civilization. The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Assembly Hall, the new outpost in the empire of the Seattle restaurant czar Tom Douglas, has you covered no matter what your breakfast fancy. 36 Hours in Seattle 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Victor Juca As immigration from former empires continues to change the west, a polite silence has settled in modern cinema regarding colonialism. Busting Tabu 2013-03-26T17:14:38Z

“For decades, their owner had been the second-most-powerful man in Stalin’s empire, . . . a man who collaborated diligently in the tyrant’s crimes, condemning millions to cruel deaths.” Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z

“American Gangster” portrays Frank as ruthless, building a drug empire driven by greed and power, unconcerned that he is also poisoning his community. The 10 most watchable films with “American” in the title 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

The conquest of the Persian empire is invariably explained in political terms. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

If K-town increasingly resembles an empire on the march, gobbling up new territory by the week, it is not an empire made of bricks and mortar. Koreatown's cool old buildings point to L.A.'s future 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

In the second film, “The Airport,” projected on three screens, Mr. Akomfrah focuses on the economic crisis in 21st-century Greece, which he depicts as an empire in ruins. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The whole empire of signs is reduced to a greater-than symbol, the mouth of an impassive alligator eating someone’s lunch. The Trash-Talk Pyrotechnics of the “Succession” Finale 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

The crew, founded by beat producers and visual artists, operates a growing empire from its Highland Park hub, and music is the glue that makes it all stick. Essential tracks: Sufjan Stevens' 'Carrie & Lowell' hits a personal chord 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

It works thematically: immediately you start thinking about empire and its impact, about the Orient, about adventure, about how much Kipling himself lost in war. Booker club: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 2011-03-04T11:00:46Z

Related: House of Cards' Robin Wright talks 'empire Underwood' and season two The sequel is set to begin shooting in July with a planned wide release date of 12 January 2018. Robin Wright to join Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner sequel 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Two-thirds of British prime ministers at the peak of the empire, and almost a third of all U.S. presidents, lost a parent when they were children. Malcolm Gladwell Book Cheers Underdogs 2013-10-07T17:29:42Z

The greatest single force in the expansion of that empire was the East India Company. Special Report: Asian Art: How Maritime Routes Led to Cultural Exchanges 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

A descending gangplank-like walkway brought me into the museum, which traces the seafaring history of the Danes, from the Vikings to the Maersk global shipping empire. Elsinore in Denmark, Hamlet’s ‘Home,’ Is Having a Renaissance 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Everything falls apart eventually – our bodies, our countries, governments and the systems we create, also empires, vessels, land masses. "Star Trek: Discovery" Season 3 boldly goes where canon never dared to imagine life after disaster 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

They will also be barred from “direct financial transactions” with a long list of restaurants, shops and hotels that form part of the Cuban military’s extensive business empire. How to Travel to Cuba Now 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

The images will be displayed on the archives' website with a warning notice to modern sensitivities, that the original captions reflect the spirit of the empire for which they were recorded. Out of Africa: National Archives seeks public help to identify empire-era pics 2011-02-10T01:00:01Z

For four years before the US entered the war, with very little international assistance, Chinese armies stood alone against the might of the Japanese empire. China's War With Japan by Rana Mitter – review 2013-06-30T13:00:01Z

Rather, the curators argue that the empires of the Sahel were multilayered, often functioning more like coalitions or networks of related social groups. Review | The Met gives a long-overdue look at an African cultural powerhouse 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

On the West Coast, Harvey Weinstein sat atop a movie empire. Will the #MeToo movement catch up with Bill Cosby as his sexual assault retrial begins? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

The road to recognition was long, of course; no trash empire is built in a day. Review | John Waters wants to wrap you in his filthy embrace 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

And it takes both kinds to transform a business into an empire. For Joanna Gaines, Home Is the Heart of a Food and Design Empire 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

King says that in the 20s, the idea of a world ruled by empires was crumbling. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

As his business empire grew to other western states and Alaska, Worthington starred in a series of TV and radio spots. Cal Worthington, car dealer famed for TV ads, dies 2013-09-09T19:34:02Z

Yiddish Jews were one recognized minority group in the ethnic hodgepodge of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, and the only group whose status wasn’t consonant with a piece of land. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

The empire is assailed from all sides, and in the harem, shifting allegiances create conflict and distrust. Crime fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-07-22T21:55:02Z

“Strip” then moves on to explore the ethics of the Kapak empire. Books of The Times: In Thomas Perry?s ?Strip,? Affable Thugs, Rough Justice 2010-05-26T22:24:00Z

An army of horsemen sweeps across endless grasslands, much as Genghis Khan's Mongols did; memories of a vanished empire conflate Rome with the legend of Atlantis. 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' 2013-03-24T19:00:01Z

The Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène rendered myth a visual map that rescued the African past from the sullying grasp of empire. In These Ousmane Sembène Films, Women Are Revolutionaries 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z

Set in the New World in the 18th century, this wonderfully eccentric movie centers on an official of the Spanish empire brought low by hubris and the laughter of women. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

We are living through an age of anxiety and the end of an empire, we are reminded on songs with grand, explanatory titles like, well, “Age of Anxiety I” and “End of the Empire I-IV.” Arcade Fire’s Enduring Anxiety 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Shaftesbury Avenue may be the hub of her theatrical empire, but it's obvious that her heart lies several hundred miles north. Nica Burns: queen of Edinburgh comedy 2011-08-26T11:45:01Z

For a startup to successfully dismantle the Tampax empire, it needs an industry-changing idea. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

His sons, Paul and Seymour, grew the flooring company into a real estate and construction empire, but open warfare broke out in the early 2000s among the next generation. Young Socialites Conjure the Ghost of Leonard Bernstein at the Dakota 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

Space travel is the latest adventure for Branson, one of the world's most famous businessmen and entrepreneurs whose business empire ranges from airlines to mobiles phones. NBC to air Richard Branson's inaugural space flight live 2013-11-08T18:12:19Z

The best of his works genuinely take you by surprise and open up vegetable empires of fancy.• Vel?zquez, Christian Marclay and the Brighton Pavilion ? the week in art 2011-08-05T11:36:14Z

The newly wed Ms. Mugrabi quickly learned her role in the family empire. Their Warhols Are at the Whitney. Their Ugly Divorce Is on Display, Too. 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

The fall in the value of these riches led to unpopular increases in taxation and massive borrowing to sustain the empire. Global power 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

She traces the ways in which “Americans were in active denial of their empire even as they laid its foundations.” A Journalist Abroad Grapples With American Power 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

The sober Museum of Occupations, recounting Estonian life under Soviet and German rule, is a reminder of the struggles faced by small countries in the shadow of empires. Embracing Estonia’s singing revolution 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, he joined what became best known as Radio Liberty, a CIA-underwritten network similar to Radio Free Europe but aimed directly at the heart of the Soviet empire. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies

Now Ms. Legetic wants to extend that empire to New York, a city that’s already saturated with events and event planners. Svetlana Legetic, Washington Night Life Promoter, Moving to New York 2012-08-17T20:45:23Z

The Enlightenment museum, after all, was often an “imperial” museum, its ambitions aided by the empire’s global reach. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z

So is the Murdoch empire stuffing our children's heads with dangerous nonsense while pretending to edify them? Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z

The Portuguese prime minister tries to rally “a nation and an empire behind a cause of such antiquity that its mere mention made mockery of it,” Weisman writes. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

In the winter of 1521, however, it was his fractured German empire, not his vast overseas possessions, that were chiefly on the emperor’s mind. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

And it's strange to remember how very daring Shrek 1 seemed at the time: the implied obscenity in Lord Farquaad, the cheeky attack on the Disney empire. Film review: Shrek Forever After 2010-07-01T21:00:00Z

But the sequel has been far more interesting, as the royal couple and their expanding family leave the stifling shackles of the empire and carve a new life in, of all places, Hollywood. Meghan Markle "excites controversy" — Andrew Morton on the galvanizing power of the People's Duchess 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Godfather of Pittsburgh In this new unscripted series, entrepreneur Vince Isoldi attempts to manage his business empire while taking care of his large Italian American family, which is embroiled in a bitter feud. Monday's Highlights: 'Growing Up Gotti: 10 Years Later' 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

The empire’s subsequent decline is amusingly compared to a company’s struggling with a franchising problem. | 'Long Story Short': Colin Quinn Performs at 45 Bleecker Street 2010-08-16T21:32:00Z

And yet here you are, moving to D.C. with your boyfriend, to participate more fully in the heroic adventure of capitalist democracy and the governing of a falling empire. My BF’s BF is a cruddy lout 2012-07-23T00:00:00Z

All the gory glory of the Roman empire, Spartacus delivers another perfect season of mayhem and intrigue. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-09-28T23:05:57Z

At the New York Philharmonic, Dudamel will lead an organization that is smaller than his Los Angeles empire, and one that has struggled in recent decades with financial troubles. Gustavo Dudamel, Star Maestro, to Leave L.A. for New York Philharmonic 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

To some extent the elites in the book are constantly building their own empires at the expense of an idea of community. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z

Yoav is not entirely as expected: neither an impressive Israeli warrior nor the likely heir of a moving empire. The comedic clash of an American businessman and an Israeli innocent abroad 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

But like Britain, CNN is a diminished empire that on special occasions still commands respect and attention. The TV Watch: A Sea of Network Giddiness on the Thames 2012-06-05T22:27:25Z

That Wenner has been liquidating his empire — Rolling Stone was put up for sale as “Sticky Fingers” went to press — only makes the story more urgent. The Licentious Life and Times of Jann Wenner 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Befitting a cartoon empire, your main weapons here are paint and thinner, which you can use to fill in and erase parts of the world around you. Video Game Review: Mickey Moves Onto Yet Another Screen 2010-12-13T16:32:00Z

It covered the story of Rome from the mythical foundings of the Republic down to the fall of the western empire. Revolutions, self-help and the election – podcasts of the week 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

But can you think of a better time than the ’80s with Ronald Reagan yelling about the evil empire? Q&A: The CIA Officer Behind the New Spy Drama ‘The Americans’ 2013-01-30T12:59:58Z

There’s the occasional sharp moment to remind us of the character’s inner fires, but mostly she plays it cool and oddly small-scale, like an overly qualified schoolmistress who happens to find herself ruling an empire. Review: Helen Mirren Wears the Crown (This Time, Russia’s) 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Collins eventually expanded his mumbo empire, while simultaneously spurring the Black business movement. The story of mambo (or mumbo) sauce, the condiment that likely fueled the civil rights movement 2021-01-17T05:00:00Z

Farmers in the Roman empire seriously damaged their soils. Five misused food and farming terms — and what they really mean 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

At least the fashion sensibility of the empire that anointed her a Dame Commander has remained consistent. As London Fashion Week Begins, Zandra Rhodes Makes the Scene 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Here’s the High Sparrow explaining to what looks to be a soldier that the poor can overthrow an empire. We Analyzed Every Second of the New 'Game of Thrones' Season 6 Trailer 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

The new “Thor” is partly concerned with expanding the Marvel empire to include Russell Crowe as the vainglorious Greek god Zeus and Christian Bale as the nefarious Gorr the God Butcher. What Makes Taika Waititi Run and Run and Run? 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

The lacy dress was reportedly inspired by William Blake watercolors and featured a high neckline and an empire waist that flattered her baby bump. See the dress Sophie Hunter wore to marry Benedict Cumberbatch 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

“Not just, ‘I’m trying to take an empire,’ but, ‘What would it be, for a 20-year-old to end up in a really bad marriage that she couldn’t leave?’ This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

That’s why we live here, in the capital of the empire. | The Fabulous Lives of Others 2011-03-15T22:07:49Z

In 1590 it became a mosque, then in 1912, when the city became Greek again rather than part of the Ottoman empire, it was reconsecrated as a church. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z

Michaels went on to be the show’s trainer for a dozen seasons in total, allowing her to build a multimillion-dollar fitness empire. 'It's a miracle no one has died yet': The Biggest Loser returns, despite critics' warnings 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Film writer David Thomson, who pays a barbed tribute to Lucas’s “great talent for making money”, describes Star Wars as “the beginning of one of the great American movie empires”. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

The cloak-and-dagger activities of the lawyers and journalists pursuing the Murdoch empire make for delicious reading, as when the attorneys routinely pull the batteries out of their phones when they meet to discuss strategy. ‘Hack Attack,’ About a Rupert Murdoch Paper’s Trials, by Nick Davies 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

And though hard-core fashion types will scoff, L.A.-based companies like Guess, American Apparel, Juicy Couture, Forever 21 and the new e-commerce entry Nasty Gal have built empires that dwarf better-respected luxury lines. | Los Angeles, Where the Wild Things Are 2013-08-20T18:49:15Z

The sold-out show put on full view Mr. Green’s uncanny knack for channeling the voice of marginalized but smart, self-identifying nerds, a gift he has turned into a YouTube empire. John and Hank Green Bring Their Show to Carnegie Hall 2013-01-16T23:22:53Z

My favorite entry is their "inspirational" story of how the media "transformed itself from a mere public necessity into an entertaining profit center for ever-expanding corporate empires." Vintage chat: Moyers and Stewart 2011-05-18T16:30:00Z

His eldest son, Jack, who followed his father into broadcasting and worked in the family-business empire, died at 70 of lymphoma in 2007. Obituary: Talk-show pioneer Art Linkletter 2010-05-27T04:12:00Z

The prime minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street reflects the fustiness of a weakened empire: dowdy furnishings, corridors lined in linoleum, a cramped attic for advisers stranded overnight. The Plot to Kill Hitler 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

To inaugurate his empire of brutal regression and to strike a clear example into people's minds, the ruler decided to put an end to The Princess of Cleves. Nicolas Sarkozy, the murderer of the Princess of Cleves 2011-03-23T09:30:01Z

It was the promise of the gold in the mythical empire of El Dorado that propelled the conquistadors toward the continent. 'Boardwalk Empire' Finale Recap: Golden Memories 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

And another modern country that was not named to be within the empire is Turkey; the Turks, unknown in antiquity, moved to their country during the Middle Ages from Central Asia. Persian Cuisine, Fragrant and Rich With Symbolism 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

They seem to forget about their empires back home and what this win will mean for their favorite charities. Who won "Top Chef Masters"? 2010-06-10T12:18:00Z

The Spanish empire that helped install Cosimo in power was a Latin-infused institution, where mastery of the language marked one as educated and elite. Analysis | At the Met, beautiful paintings that won’t love you back 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

But 20 years ago, she was the runaway princess of the Indranan empire. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 1: Space fantasy books to read 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Neither Cortés nor his father raised pigs, but Mike’s point seemed clear: The men who destroyed the Aztec empire were not fit for decent company. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z

But then again, Lawrence would never “lead a campaign against the mightiest empire on Earth.” 'TURN: Washington's Spies' recap: General haunted by agonizing choice 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

This piece is the latest article in his newserieson the changing face of American empire, which is being underwritten byLannan Foundation.  Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z

George Clooney is answering the call to direct "Hack Attack" for Sony Pictures, an adaptation of journalist Nick Davies' book about the British phone-hacking scandal that erupted around Rupert Murdoch's news empire. George Clooney to direct 'Hack Attack,' about British media scandal 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

History brought a swift end to his empire. The Man Who Changed the Face of Shanghai 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Instead, and for much of human history, empire has been "the default mode of state organisation". Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin - review 2012-12-28T08:00:03Z

Cosby once commanded an empire — a thriving entertainment behemoth, and the personal assistants, valets, publicists and personal chefs that kept his luxe life and businesses running. Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years in state prison 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

You get to spend the next couple of hours surveying your empire from above the dining room, a temporary fixture of the bartender's roving gaze for however long you stay. The spontaneous joy of eating at the bar, the last bastion of walk-in dining 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Syria stood at the heart of the ancient Middle East, a crucible for some of the world’s earliest civilizations and was at times incorporated into Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Persian, Greek and Roman empires. Palmyra priest statue among haul of recovered Syrian relics 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

As their empire has expanded, they have had to get used to other actors playing their parts. In ‘The Play That Goes Wrong,’ It’s Murder, Strictly for Laughs 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Philip II of 16th-century Spain was known as the “paper king” — and the founder of modern bureaucracy — because he employed letters, forms, questionnaires and other written documents to govern his vast empire. Paper, books and the art of collecting 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Cortez and Pizarro separately and simultaneously came up with the idea of invading powerful empires in the new world and stealing everything that wasn’t nailed down. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Ray is only 42 and her empire is still expanding. Rachael Ray, the new queen of US cookery ? and she can't bake 2010-12-05T00:07:00Z

Since then, Chang has expanded his empire to include multiple eateries, a podcast, two Netflix shows — and now a memoir, “Eat a Peach,” which rolled onto this week’s hardcover nonfiction list at No. 15. David Chang’s Memoir, ‘Eat a Peach,’ Provides Food for Thought 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

And then there’s Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, a newsletter that grew into a veritable lifestyle empire, complete with cookbooks, a top-dollar “wellness summit” and a following of more than 1 million subscribers. ’90s folk superstar Jewel is happy — finally. Now she wants to know: Are you? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

“I just think he wanted cute guys around him; this was all an excuse. And then lightning crazily struck, and an empire was created. It was all dumb luck.” Lou Pearlman, Svengali Behind Backstreet Boys and ’NSync, Dies at 62 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

If Theodore Roosevelt was the swashbuckling emblem of the country’s formal empire, Herbert Hoover — “an astonishingly capable bureaucrat” before he became a not-very-capable president — represented the turn toward globalization, standardization and logistics. ‘How to Hide an Empire’ Shines Light on America’s Expansionist Side 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Reagan first declared the Soviet Union an "evil empire" in a 1983 speech before the National Association of Evangelicals in Florida. Archives shows rarely seen Reagan documents in DC 2011-01-05T18:21:08Z

Berlin was a liberal fanatic, a staunch empire loyalist, gliding effortlessly from Britain to the US when the time came. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z

Fueled by her own struggles with body image, Sheila eventually launches a wildly successful exercise video empire, capitalizing on the body image struggles she shares with other '80s housewives. From "Sex/Life" to "Kevin," TV offers new answers to whether women can “have it all” 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

The exuberant owner of the Playboy media empire did not shy from making his libertine lifestyle public. Hugh Hefner’s Best Interview Moments 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The photograph shows the two DeVos brothers, scions of the Amway multilevel marketing empire, finishing a game of golf with their dad. Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Macomber began writing as a stay-at-home mom in the mid-1980s and since then she built a publishing empire with dozens of novels, anthologies and book series to her credit. Hallmark takes a trip to ‘Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove’ 2013-07-12T20:32:09Z

The collapse of the empire took history in a different direction in the west. The political Bible, part 2: justice. When is a king not a king? 2011-08-15T09:00:00Z

In particular, pro-slavery lobbyists and slavery apologists argued that the presence of slavery in ancient Greece and Rome was what allowed the two empires to become pinnacles of civilization. In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

It made its way into “Branson,” a four-part series that covers his life and career, including his founding of the Virgin empire. How ‘Peter Pan’ Inspired Richard Branson 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

This is the period our children study in school; all history before, including that of empire, is increasingly hazy. The King's Speech lays bare the sheer scale of the republican challenge 2011-01-18T21:00:02Z

Estonia is the most Nordic of them, there are Russian influences in Latvia, and Lithuania, once an empire, is more diverse, with a Jewish component. The Baltic States Get Their Culinary Due 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

That’s an unlikely sentiment coming from the woman responsible for the overall look of an upscale fitness empire, with 55 high-rent locations nationwide. Up Close: Bianca Kosoy Adds Her Creative Touch to Equinox: Up Close 2012-08-29T19:30:41Z

Now, after losing World War I and its empire, Vienna is more laid back. Rick Steves gets lost in the music and grandeur of Vienna 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Similarly, Nick Denton, the head of the Gawker empire, asked guests for “full personal presence” by checking smartphones at the door before his wedding to his partner, Derrence Washington, last May. A Defining Question in an iPhone Age: Live for the Moment or Record It? 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

The host of “Last Week Tonight” took a look at Alex Jones’ media empire, built on right-wing rage and profits from his shady pharmaceutical business. Alex Jones, the pharmacist: John Oliver explores how Infowars is pretty much a glorified pharmacy 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

His empire is smaller now, with about 120 employees. It’s Not Always Excellent to Be Jamie Oliver 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Over the years, he expanded his empire by opening stores all across the world. On Set with Celebrity Photographer Jack Robinson 2012-01-18T15:18:12Z

The former capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Jones exults, “is the most extraordinary city, with a palace on every corner and the most spectacular architecture on every block.” The Opulent Sets of the Metropolitan Opera's Die Fledermaus Recreates Fin de Siècle Vienna 2014-01-31T05:00:00Z

He is also someone who has built an empire by introducing these ideas – and a wide range of others – to listeners from across the political spectrum. How Joe Rogan became podcasting’s Goliath 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Brutalized by cultural genocide, first by the Japanese empire and then by American napalm, Yungman comes from a small village that finds itself on the northern side of an American-drawn line. Like Kimchi on Mashed Potatoes 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

The elector Philip of Hesse followed suit, as did the margrave of Brandenburg, the dukes of Schleswig and Brunswick, and many smaller potentates of the empire. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

After Christianity won official status in the Roman empire in the fourth century, it jumped languages again: St Jerome’s Latin Bible was official for Western Christianity. Talking in tongues 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

One movement in particular dominated his interests: the Peace Mission Movement, a racially integrated spiritual empire headquartered in Philadelphia. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Until this point, “Billions” had never given the impression that Bobby wasn’t firmly in control of his empire, always a move or two ahead in his three-dimensional chess game with Chuck. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 8: Bobby the Profiteer 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

The very first scene of the series reveals that Teresa is destined to be the empress of the biggest drug empire in the Western Hemisphere. “Queen of the South” and “Claws”: Sometimes bad can be very, very good 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

This couch is a Swedish empire couch, and I thought it was the perfect proportion for my clothes. Giambattista Valli: The Birth of Ideas, and Happy Moments 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

And Naples became the cosmopolitan capital of the Spanish empire in the 16th and 17th centuries under the Habsburg dynasty of Spain, not the Bourbons, who ruled only after 1734. Favorite Place: Seduced by Naples 2013-12-18T20:18:52Z

Coogan is suing News of the World publisher News Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, and former private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who worked for the paper. Phone hacking: Steve Coogan had 'treasure trove' in voicemail 2011-02-14T15:53:55Z

The empire isn’t British or American, but Roman. | 'Centurion': Two Vastly Different Enemies Share a Common Thirst for Blood 2010-08-27T00:01:00Z

In one respect, it’s another word for empire, or at least its effects are as old as empire. Abroad: Do-It-Yourself Culture Thrives Despite Globalism 2010-04-14T17:23:00Z

Tabriz was one of the capitals of the old Persian empire, famed for its bazaar, where spices from India and China were sold alongside delicate silks and intricately patterned carpets. A foodie tour of Iran: it's poetry on a plate 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

As we know from the successful case brought by Mau Mau veterans before the high court last October, end of empire in Kenya was shameful and brutal. Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z

There really was a newsboy strike in 1899 that unsettled the empires of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z

Disney, as ever, leveraged every asset in its empire to market the film. No Surprise: ‘Rogue One’ Triumphs at Box Office 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

The son of a dying empire experiences a vital culture and then returns to his dying empire and realizes the truth? I came home to a sleeping country 2013-01-29T01:00:00Z

In addition, Spanish, which is a descendant of Vulgar Latin — the informal, spoken versions of Latin that flourished in different parts of the Roman empire — already bears heavy traces of other tongues. The future of the Spanish language is looking a lot more like English 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Unlike most, however, he responded by moving to the heartland and making a film about a family farmer striving to build a modest agribusiness empire. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Ramin Bahrani Goes Big 2013-04-22T17:01:09Z

Those who thought that stint would be the end of her media empire, or her own place at the head of it, vastly miscalculated her resilience and will to power. Martha Stewart, Comedy Genius? 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Now Carnegie Hall, in its latest act of musical empire building, is establishing the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, it said Wednesday. Carnegie Hall to Establish National Youth Orchestra in 2013 2012-01-11T21:00:13Z

Two lithographs from 1827 by European visitors to Rio, capital of the new empire of Brazil, depict picaresque street scenes crowded with traders, monks, hawkers and slaves. How Latin America Was Built, Before Modernism Came Along 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

In this version of cartoon history, the head of the Disney empire merely gives out vague instructions to his staff, peppered with mean criticisms. Philip Glass opera shows Walt Disney's fantasy world in a new light 2013-01-06T00:08:29Z

This is my goal, not to open a big empire.  Chef Eric Ripert on his revealing new memoir '32 Yolks' 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, she turns having a nose for undervalued vintage clothes and the massive chip on her tiny shoulder into laying the groundwork for a fashion empire. Girlboss in the White House: How Ivanka Trump’s business success makes her above reproach 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

This started a chain of events that would split Western Christian faith, plunge Europe into a century of warfare, cause empires to rise and fall, and inspire new schools of art and thought. Visiting Germany’s Lutherland during 500th anniversary 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Accounts of Benjamin Disraeli’s career as a statesman can and have filled numerous hefty volumes; for better and worse, he was a key architect of the British empire. Secrets of a power marriage: The Disraelis were the Clintons of their time 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Hwang’s smash exposé of empire and race, gender and domination, could always be read as a reflection on the Puccini and the biases it still perpetuates as well as a gloss on the real-life tale. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

The earliest mentions of Herat and Balkh occur in the sixth century B.C. inscriptions of the Achaemenid rulers of the Iranian empire. Art Review: Murky Exploration of an Iranian Past 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z

Dee was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, navigator, book collector, philosopher and proponent of empire for an expanding Britain. Music Review: An Alchemist Reaches Out Across Centuries 2011-07-03T19:14:09Z

Part of the story’s tension stems from Elisabeth’s role in the empire’s dual monarchy, which makes her leader of two countries she has no real say over. ‘Corsage’ Review: A Queen in Quiet Rebellion 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

When the Muslim Umayyad empire reached the city in the mid-seventh century, the main trade routes had shifted north and Palmyra had become a backwater. Stones that speak 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Morale was low, and some thought that what once had been the heart of the Disney creative empire could end up being shuttered. Disney's animation building getting a Pixar face-lift all its own 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

With its empire of smartphones, apps and internet services, Google is in the business of communication, and Mr. Eck sees Magenta as a natural extension of this work. How A.I. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

“You do what you can do,” Patterson said. “I’m not an empire builder.” James Patterson Would Like You to Read 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Designers around the world are expanding their empires beyond haute couture to include haute cuisine. The World’s Most Fashion-Forward Restaurants 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

It preceded and justified the acceptance of Marilyn Monroe and her calendar, the cartoon contours of Jayne Mansfield, Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire — the whole codifying, elevation and exploitation of the American male's mammary mania. Remembering "The Two and Only" Jane Russell: 1921-2011 2011-03-04T09:05:00Z

“There’s no empire,” he replied, laughing a bit ruefully. James Murdoch, Rebellious Scion 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

That is the way empires crumble: they are taken over by looter elites, who sooner or later cause collapse. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z