emperor
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In the past, they were considered a royal beast and Roman emperors often had them imported from North Africa.
From BBC
“His relationship with his emperor had become something akin to a talisman to protect himself from criticism, questioning, and political attacks,” Mr. Mauch observes.
Species NWT has helped recover in Norfolk include crane, bittern, purple emperor butterfly and natterjack toad.
From BBC
That appeared to pave the way for the emperor's daughter to rise to the Chrysanthemum Throne, but the birth of Prince Hisahito, the emperor's nephew, the following year silenced the debate.
From Barron's
Theodosius was the Christian Roman emperor who embraced the Nicene Creed as the religion of empire in the late fourth century, conducting a single-minded suppression of paganism in the lands over which he ruled.
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