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Research Topics on: dowager empress

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Books on: dowager empress

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Journal Articles on: dowager empress

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Newspaper Articles on: dowager empress

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    The Empress of Extravagance
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 5, 2008
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    The Empress of Extravagance. Byline: Michael Thornton...trimmed with real ostrich feathers. THE EMPRESS The Queen, fresh from a depressing trawl...Elizabeth. Parliament voted the new Queen and Empress of India a pounds sterling70,000 annuity...
     
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    All at Sea with Russia's Runaway Royals
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 7, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...evacuate the Tsars mother, the dowager Empress Marie and her entourage, from...HMS Marlborough carried off the Empress and 17 members of her family at...voyage were first and foremost the dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, mother...
     
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    Royalty on the Run
    Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 30, 2011
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    Welch, Frances
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...catch her eye. The first is the Dowager Empress Marie, mother of the murdered...warm relationship with the doughty Dowager Empress based on their shared Christian...at Victoria station in London, Dowager Empress Marie soon flounced back...
     
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    Rescuing the Last Romanovs
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 10, 2011
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    Welch, Frances
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...shore, but nevertheless, the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna was 45 minutes...little sacks of Russian soil. The Dowager Empress, who expected to return...of refuge," notes Welch. The Dowager Empress, clinging blindly to hope...
     
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    EMPIRE OF THE EUNUCHS; It Was a Passport to Wealth and Power in a City of Beautiful Concubines. but It Involved the Ultimate Sacrifice for Any Man ..
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 12, 2005
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...He had been installed by his aunt, the Empress Dowager Cixi, as a puppet ruler. Like many an Empress before her, Cixi was used to dictating...a time of high infant mortality. If the Empress failed to bear a male heir, the son of...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: dowager empress

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    Boxer Uprising
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...conservative opposition and was frustrated (1898) by the dowager empress, Tzu Hsi , who, favoring a last effort to expel foreign influence, supported armed resistance. The dowager empress tacitly encouraged an antiforeign secret society called...
     
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    Titles
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...French in 1804, and Queen Victoria was proclaimed empress of India in 1877. Caesar, the cognomen of Julius...beginning with Huang Ti (emperor), Huang How (empress), Huang Tai How (dowager empress), and so on. Titles of the hereditary imperial...
     
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    Maria Theresa
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...80, Austrian archduchess, queen of Bohemia and Hungary (1740 80), consort of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and dowager empress after the accession (1765) of her son, Joseph II. Her father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI , altered the Hapsburg...
     
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    Tz'U Hsi
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    TZU HSI Tsu Hsi, or Tse Hsi all: tsoo she, 1834 1908, dowager empress of China (1861 1908) and regent (1861 73, 1874 89, 1898 1908). Her failure to realize the gravity of the foreign threat...
     
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    K'Ang Yu-Wei
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...schools, abolished many sinecure posts, and revised administrative regulations. Backed by conservative officials, Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi imprisoned the emperor and rescinded most of the reforms. Kang fled to Japan and spent the years before the...
     

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