Nineteen thousand resident white loyalists also supplemented British troops, as did at least eight thousand Irishmen and more than thirty thousand soldiers loaned to the king by princes in the German states.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
Markle’s video showed the prince and her friend, Kelly McKee Zajfen, watching the end of the game as the Dodgers clinched back-to-back World Series titles.
The doctrine is both a reasonable tactical reaction to threatening events and a vivid personal reflection of Trump the wannabe emperor, committed to self-extolling, national expansion and personal and national wealth.
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John Brummett,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
The retooling emperor has been disrobed and rightly ridiculed by those far enough removed from the halls of power to speak plainly, the truth now apparent for all to see.
Similarly, the scale, scope and depth of the AI revolution will also compel the group practice leaders, health system executives, private equity satraps and all others who now pull the strings on so many physicians to adapt to the democratization of medical knowledge.
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Michael L. Millenson,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
The ranks of the leadership are staffed, in large measure, with satraps and mediocrities.
Cate Blanchett is the queen of a relaxed, textured bob.
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Catharine Malzahn,
InStyle,
8 Jan. 2026
In some species, ants restructure their nests to slow the transmission of a lethal fungus and in others, ant queens eat infected brood to prevent the spread of disease and recover nutrients.
Witkoff went from Qatar to Israel on Saturday and insisted on having a meeting with the prime minister on the afternoon of the Jewish sabbath—a violation of Israeli protocol rudely designed to remind Netanyahu who was the vassal and who was the suzerain.
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Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2025
Citizens of countries historically exploited by the West face higher financial and bureaucratic hurdles to access facilities and resources concentrated in their former suzerain.
Edis, chief of the Landon family office and a protégé of its founder, the late swashbuckling billionaire Timothy Landon, who’s legendary as the chief political advisor to his military school chum, the sultan of Oman, notes that Swain gives Houlihan Lokey an extra edge.
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Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 Nov. 2025
Once the residence of sultans, this 17th-century landmark in Istanbul now invites discerning travelers to experience imperial grandeur infused with contemporary touches.
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