meters long. This made it the largest man-made, free standing vault constructed until modern times. The throne room—presumably under or behind the arch—was...

Anatolia one by one. This was briefly stalled by a decade-long interregnum, when five claimants to the throne, along with their supporters, fought against...

Europe as the Germans occupied Denmark, as King Christian X remained on the throne as Head of State in symbolic resistance, riding his horse through Copenhagen...

Treaty, the exiled Kedah sultan Ahmad Tajuddin was not restored to his throne. Sultan Ahmad and his armed supporters then fought unsuccessfully for his...

stairway, more suitable for a dance routine in top hat and tails than for clumping quarrelsome giants. The Wishing Chair is a throne-like cluster of columns...

who had seized power after committing patricide. The rightful heir to the throne, Moggallana, fled to South India. Fearing an attack from Moggallana, Kashyapa...

regaining his throne. His forces faced off against those of King William III across the River Boyne a few km upstream from Drogheda. A defeated James...

a large followers consequent upon the unrest that attended the death of Alaafin Abiodun in 1789. One tradition states that Olufi contested the throne...

the city's population spread beyond its walls. In 1922, Man Singh II ascended to the throne and it was during his reign that civic buildings like the...

throne decided your fate: the left door meant freedom, the center door meant imprisonment, and the right door meant death. Above the throne room is a...

naves; the central one ends with a room that most likely served as a throne room; the two lateral naves end with a small apse each, protruding outwards...

though he and his successors fought a sixty-year "Jacobite" campaign to try to regain the throne. The cottage is a small museum, temporarily closed in...

Byzantine throne. The longest surviving rump Byzantine state, the empire of Trebizond was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1461, almost a decade after...

sights that had a profound impact on the rest of his life; an old man, a sick man, a dead man and an ascetic. As a result, he discovered that a life of luxury...

abdicated due to illness in favor of his eldest son Hussein, who ascended the throne in 1953. During Jordanian occupation, Jews had to leave the West Bank and...

next upheaval, the "Williamite wars" as King James tried to regain his throne, had little effect hereabouts, but southeast Ireland was embroiled in the...

when the Tartar cataclysm had threatened to engulph it. The frail Latin throne in Constantinople was still standing, but tottering to its fall. The successors...

certainly after a general election, the monarch leads the State Opening of Parliament, during which he delivers the Speech from the Throne to both houses...

continental caller in 1689 was King James II & VII, ousted from the English throne but strongly supported in Ireland. He landed at Kinsale with French troops...

clay figurines. The images of Nana, a god sitting on a throne in the shape of a camel and of a god standing over a fallen demon are most common. С30 for...