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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.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
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Once the residence of sultans, this 17th-century landmark in Istanbul now invites discerning travelers to experience imperial grandeur infused with contemporary touches.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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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.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Following the Qianlong Garden, museum officials said Yangxindian (Hall of Mental Cultivation), the residence and administrative office for Qing emperors, is also expected to reopen this year after completing restoration work that started in 2018.—
Fred He,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Last year, at the age of eighty-six, Hopkins appeared as the Roman emperor Vespasian on TV, in Those About to Die, the thrust of his performance being to treat the show’s title with scorn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Building on the site commenced in the 13th century under the instruction of Ibn al-Ahmar, the first member of the Nasrid family to be emir of Granada, and the sprawling compound was used by the emirs until Isabella and Ferdinand conquered the city in 1492.—
Fiona Mozley,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
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Trump spoke midweek with Qatar’s emir for an update on the conversations.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
3 Oct. 2025
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During the shah’s reign, filmmakers wrapped their civic appraisals in allegory, like Dariush Mehrjui’s 1969 Iranian New Wave classic, The Cow, about how a cow’s death spins its owner into unhinged chaos.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
14 Oct. 2025
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In the course of human events — at the courts of tsars, sultans, kaisers, shahs and the like — fealty has usually trumped expertise.—
Andreas Kluth,
Twin Cities,
28 Aug. 2025
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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.—
Michael L. Millenson,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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The ranks of the leadership are staffed, in large measure, with satraps and mediocrities.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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Instead, these rather daring verses were composed by a Hieronymite nun for her beloved vicereine, the wife of the Spanish king’s representative in New Spain.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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That may in itself pose an ongoing risk to the monarchy's reputation if the public feel Andrew is still being protected by the king.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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There have been multiple reports confirming the two will keep their royal titles, remaining princesses, and will still be styled as Her Royal Highness.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
4 Nov. 2025
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The falls’ sheets of shimmering water plunge 90 feet into Black Creek Ravine below, and according to local legend, so did a Native-American princess with the same name.—
Jennifer Stewart Kornegay,
Southern Living,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Khedive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/khedive. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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