Spain moves kings’ remains to avoid fire Spanish authorities on Thursday night transferred the remains of three 11th century kings from a monastery in the northeastern Aragón region near an active wildfire.
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Angela Charlton,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Aug. 2026
Clean water and advanced medicine, for example, are now commonplace across much of the developed world despite once being a luxury even kings and queens couldn’t reliably access.
To ensure compliance, three imperial princes were tasked with personally notifying senior Japanese military commanders of the surrender.
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Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
5 Aug. 2026
The Belgian princesses and princes have all been busy with their education, with a recent milestone being King Philippe and Queen Mathilde traveling to Boston for Princess Elisabeth’s graduation ceremonies.
Other Eurasian emperors of the time also did not persecute occult practitioners as Ivan did in the lead-up to the second oprichnina, actions more in line with attitudes in early modern Christian Europe than those common among rulers of Asia.
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Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Aug. 2026
Japan’s emperors have long been regarded as descendants of the sun goddess Amaterasu under Shinto beliefs.
For generations, the Sea had been the lifeblood of the Karakalpak people, who lived as seminomadic pastoralists under various rulers, including khanates, tsars, the USSR, and now independent Uzbekistan.
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Michael Snyder,
Saveur,
11 Mar. 2026
Büttner, who is not Jewish, serves as one of 15 state antisemitism czars in Germany, which also has a federal antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein.
The world had never before heard how the moguls spoke, or thought.
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The Week US,
TheWeek,
13 Aug. 2026
Many of Ellis’s most awful characters are the most conventionally attractive, their looks serving as a shield against their various crimes; Murphy co-created The Beauty, in which tech moguls and assassins kill to be beautiful.
In fact, challenging the rules of the digital road the tech lords have lucratively paved for themselves, the cases are but three of more than 2,000 such suits moving through a plethora of courts across the land against social media companies.
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Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
8 July 2026
Much of this episode focused on Rhaenyra’s uncomfortable interactions with various lords and ladies in King’s Landing, from a hostile High Septon to Lord Corlys Velaryon to her new dragonriders.
Clean water and advanced medicine, for example, are now commonplace across much of the developed world despite once being a luxury even kings and queens couldn’t reliably access.
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Preston Fore,
Fortune,
12 Aug. 2026
Louisa Levy and Gina Fattore Crown Levy and Fattore the queens of hockey romance.
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