The British Museum, National Gallery and Tate have different "areas", as if they are pedantic scholars fussing over little intellectual empires.
That seems screamingly obvious to me, but education ministers of all stripes remain stubbornly committed to marching off in the opposite direction, and many in the education world, perhaps not unreasonably, see it as a direct threat to their intellectual empires – not to mention their departments, status and pensions.
That leaves Zuckerberg as Curly, the intellectual whose empire keeps growing no matter what mistakes he seems to make.
227856 Steve Jobs Apple Computer Applecorps chief Neil Aspinall Neil Aspinall, master of the Beatles' intellectual property empire, did not immediately return calls to his London office seeking comment.
Chiladze's novel Avelum (1995), for example, was a notable account of a Georgian intellectual watching his personal "empire of love" crumble together with the Soviet empire.
By the end of the 6th century, however, the general decline of the Byzantine Empire's intellectual life and the strong opposition of the church had combined to virtually obliterate astrology, though some practice of reading celestial omens survived in Byzantium as it did in western Europe.
Biblical texts are reinterpreted in the Empire's intellectual centers.
It was a confrontation on an intellectual level with the empire when we smoked dope at the base of the Washington Monument with a couple hundred cops watching, and later when we skirmished with them.
That raises the general question of intellectual awareness of the Persian empire, which conquered the Lydian kingdom of Croesus about 546 bce and so inherited Lydian rule over the Greeks of the Asiatic coastal mainland.
The disappearance of the great lyric and poetic styles, the fossilizing of education as it came to be completely based on rhetoric (paideia), and the growing importance of philosophical and religious polemical literature among both pagans and Christians were the basic traits that, as early as the 3rd century, foreshadowed the intellectual life of the late empire.
They disappeared with the onset of the Qin dynasty (221 B.C.E ., partly because the political and intellectual climate of the new empire was hostile to their purely theoretical, occasionally flippant inquiries, and partly because with unification their political services became obsolete.
