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Empress Wu the Great: Tang Dynasty China eBooks & eLearning

Posted by robin-bobin at Jan. 13, 2009

Empress Wu the Great: Tang Dynasty China By X. L. Woo
Publisher: Algora Publishing 2008 | 188 Pages | ISBN: 0875866603 | PDF | 1.2 MB

Empress Wu was stunning in her beauty, in her ruthless elimination of rivals (including sons and daughters), and, most important, in her discernment. She was esteemed for appointing capable officials throughout the realm, and she implemented reforms that improved standards of higher education, gave some status to women, and democratized the recruitment of candidates for official posts by eliminating the requirement that they be nominated by someone within the establishment…

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Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck [Audiobook] Audiobooks

Posted by tarantoga at April 29, 2025

Eve Lazarus, Holly Adams (Narrator), "Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck"
English | ASIN: B0DTZQSHB3 | 2025 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:53:00 | 190 MB

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Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian eBooks & eLearning

Posted by awaknow at March 9, 2009

Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian
University of Texas Press | ISBN: 0292721056 | 2002| PDF | 146 pages | 3 Mb

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Bessie Smith - Empress Of The Blues (1992) Music

Posted by popsakov at June 18, 2020

The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie Smith rightly earned the title of "The Empress of the Blues." Even on her first records in 1923, her passionate voice overcame the primitive recording quality of the day and still communicates easily to today's listeners (which is not true of any other singer from that early period). At a time when the blues were in and most vocalists (particularly vaudevillians) were being dubbed "blues singers," Bessie Smith simply had no competition. Back in 1912, Bessie Smith sang in the same show as Ma Rainey, who took her under her wing and coached her. Although Rainey would achieve a measure of fame throughout her career, she was soon surpassed by her protégée. In 1920, Smith had her own show in Atlantic City and, in 1923, she moved to New York.

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