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When Marcus died three years later and Commodus took the throne, the era of the Good Emperors came to a disastrous end.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Rebecca Masri, founder of luxury travel app Little Emperors, has a solution for those dead set on returning to old favorites despite prices, weather and crowds: Go after Labor Day.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2024

Emperors court, mate, lay and hatch eggs, and then bring up their young on the sea-ice connected to the coast - so-called fast ice.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2024

“The Emperors are in big trouble,” said Steve Emslie, an expert in Adelie penguins at University of North Carolina Wilmington who was not involved in this research.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023

So, unhappily, Emperors of the Realm of Taste became a permanent feature on the Paradise Pickle labels.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy