Flowering dogwood trees are hallmarks of Southern landscaping. One of our favorites is the Empress of China dogwood. It is an ...

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ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 2, 1912 (UP) - The dowager empress and Pu Yi, the seven-year-old emperor of China, disguised, are fleeing toward Zhikhe on the Mongolian frontier, according to dispatches from ...

Many of history's most renowned monarchs have amassed huge health, but one boasted an unparalleled £13 trillion fortune.

The story that touched my heart the most was the story of Wu Zetian, the only Empress of China. She ruled from 660 to 705 - in total 45 years! How incredible is that! [Photo provided to ...

Chinese Characters is a new series of essays ... she killed her own newborn child – and then framed the Empress for the murder. Wu Zetian (624-705) of the Tang dynasty Wu Zetian started at ...

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Mao Tse Tung was fifteen when the Empress Dowager died in 1908. The one succeeded the other after only forty years. How great seems the incongruity between these two, and how entire the overturning of ...