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A brief history of women in power. Historically, the most common way for a woman to become a ruler was as a regent. There were, however, many cases where the regent decided to stay in power. A prime example is Empress Wu Zetian who, as consort, ruled over China’s Tang Dynasty. She married Emperor Gaozong in 655; h….
3 giorni fa · The conventional story of why Edward VIII came to abdicate in 1936 is well known and hardly needs any detailed rehearsal. The King abandoned the throne because he was determined on marrying the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, ‘the woman I love’, a union rejected by the politica…
5 giorni fa · Wallis was given the title Duchess of Windsor on her marriage to Edward, who had the Dukedom bestowed on him after his abdication. They denied any wrong-doing or secret affair while Wallis was a married woman. In fact, Edward had successfully sued those who called her his ‘mistress’.
4 giorni fa · Burrough on the Hill lies on the western edge of the uplands of east Leicestershire, about twelve miles north-east of Leicester. The ground falls from nearly 700 ft. in the north-east of the parish to 350 ft. in the south-west. At the extreme northeast is the earthwork known as Burrough Camp, (fn. 1) an Iron Age fort which occupies a promontory ...
4 giorni fa · Scala Saffir-Simpson. Indice di calore. Il sole in diretta. Fenomeni estremi. Meteo Mare e Venti. ... mentre altri ritengono che sia un ramo distinto nell’albero genealogico degli Homo.
5 giorni fa · A few months into his reign he caused a constitutional crisis by announcing that he wanted to marry Wallis Simpson, a divorcee who was seeking to dissolve her marriage to her second husband. Edward knew that the government of Stanley Baldwin would resign if he went ahead with the marriage which would have meant an election in which his status as politically neutral would have been compromised.
5 giorni fa · Along with the Simpson family, The Simpsons includes a large array of characters: co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople, local celebrities. The creators originally intended many of these characters as one-time jokesters or for fulfilling needed functions in the town.
