To those advocating reliance on them, Washington responded: "The Idea is chimerical, and that we have so long persisted in it is a reflection on the judgment of a Nation so enlightened as we are, as well as a strong proof of the empire of prejudice over reason".
After the Hungarian defeat at the Battle of Mohács, the Ottoman Empire took over much of Hungary; the remainder of the Hungarian lands, including Slovakia, were known as Royal Hungary.
By the time of William's death in 1087, England formed the largest part of an Anglo-Norman empire, ruled over by a network of nobles with landholdings across England, Normandy, and Wales.
The Battle of Thermopylae ( ; Greek:, Machē tōn Thermopylōn) was fought between alliances of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
This was the year when the hot favourite, JG Ballard (Empire of the Sun), was passed over for a relative newcomer, Anita Brookner (Hotel du Lac).
As heroic Empress Savina, she is involved in a difficult struggle with Jeremy Irons who, as the Mage Profion, employs various elves to help him take over the Empire of Izmer.
It served as a prototype for the fiction romances Steele and Littlemore have produced as Empire of the Sun, having bonded over a mutual love of Alejandro Jodorowsky's avant-garde 1973 masterpiece, The Holy Mountain, in which a Christ-like character "withdraws from society with a flock of disciples to quest for eternal life".
The Russian Empire took over the administration of the lighthouse in 1805.
When he reluctantly ceded the chairmanship to Robert F. Daniell, an engineer who set out to trim the organization and take a more direct role in managing it, a Wall Street analyst said, "To say that the days of empire building are over is all but a truism".
