was Roman Emperor with Balbinus for three months in 238, during the Year of the Six Emperors. The sources for this period are scant, and thus knowledge of the emperor is limited. In most contemporary texts Pupienus is referred by his agnomen "Maximus" rather than by his cognomen (family ...
The Year of the Five Emperors refers to the year 193 AD, in which there were five claimants for the title of Roman Emperor. The five were Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus and Septimius Severus. The year 193 opened with the murder of Commodus on New Year's E...
For Chinese people, the name Yuan- mingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, resonates (回荡)through history. First constructed in 1707, this former royal resort of the Qing Dynasty, covering roughly 350 hectares in the northwest of Beijing, witnessed (见证)the rule of six emperors, an...
Commodus was crazy and paranoid, and like so many emperors, was eventually assassinated. In fact, he was assassinated on December 31, 192, only a few hours away from making the title of this episode, the year with six emperors. Commodus’s assassination was part of a liquidation of many R...
power-shifting periods referred to by terms like "six dynasties" or "five dynasties." These descriptive labels are similar to the more modern Romans' year of the sixemperorsand year of the fiveemperors. Thus, for example, the Xia and Shang dynasties may have existed concurrently rather than ...
Beijing Confucius Temple was built in the 6th year of emperor of the Yuan Dade decade (1306), It was the place where memorial ceremonies were held for Confucius during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties Confucius Temple covers an area of over 22,000 square meters and construction area of 740...
As for archery, the Yuan Dynasty is famous for it. The emperors of the Yuan Dynasty were nomadic (游牧) people. They used archery to fight, while5(make) themselves fit. Archery is one of the six Chinese arts, but it was not until the Yuan Dynasty that archery became more popular. ...
The so-called "Five Emperors' money" refers to the coins of the first half of the Qing Dynasty, which were made in Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong and Jiaqing dynasties. These five year titles are the same or homophonic with auspicious words in traditional customs and culture, and are...
no longer remembers them, his seven-year-old brother, Pu Chieh (Henry Kyi), remains in the Forbidden City to be a playmate and companion to the emperor. After a revolution overthrows the Qingdynasty, Pu Yi learns that he is the emperor only of the Forbidden City; outside of those walls...
Amid the public uproar, in 1995 Camilla Parker Bowles divorced her husband (who soon afterward married his own mistress), and Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorced the following year. In 1997 Princess Diana died in a car accident, causing an unprecedented outpouring of grief from the public...