In the 1950s, this was not the US but the dying empires of Britain and France, which had dominated the Middle East for the first half of the century.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
The most gifted preachers transformed that aura into spiritual empires, drawing thousands to megachurches, filling television airwaves and sometimes amassing personal fortunes.
This year’s Imaginarium Festival theme is Winter Utopia, featuring ice kingdoms and fairytale landscapes alongside infinity mirror rooms, interactive exhibits, carnival games and an ice skating rink.
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Marcus Smith,
Sacbee.com,
7 Nov. 2025
The history of premodern Southeast Asia, where small kingdoms competed and traded without coming under the dominion of China or India, suggests a different model.
No more communism, or fascism; no more theocracy, or monarchies.
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Richard Stengel,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
America’s most steadfast allies in this bit of the 21st century are the Gulf monarchies, true and unapologetic kingdoms big on pomp and light on participation.
Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, has similarly dropped into deep curtsies when meeting other sovereigns on trips abroad.
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Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
Wall Street, institutions and even sovereigns are migrating infrastructure onto the blockchain and ETH is well positioned to capture value through various channels.
Of course, a good number of researchers and critics have warned of the dangers of using AI in these consequential domains.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
Yet the nonprofit appears to be concealing this from visitors to its website, where a search function, the only nontechnical tool for seeing what’s in Common Crawl’s archives, returns misleading results for certain domains.
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