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  2. Daughters of Isis - Wikipedia

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    Local groups of the Imperial Court were founded by African American women in the early years of the twentieth century in Maryland, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C..In 1909, representatives of these locals met with a committee from the Prince Hall Shriners and formally requested the formation of a national organization of female relatives of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the ...

  3. Toyotomi Sadako - Wikipedia

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    After the Toyotomi clan was ruined in 1615 during the Siege of Osaka, Sadako became an adopted daughter of her mother's husband, Tokugawa Hidetada. She also served as a precious mediator for the Tokugawa clan between court nobles and warriors, since Sadako's mother, Oeyo, had married into the Tokugawa family. Toyotomi Sadako died in 1658 at 67 ...

  4. Imperial House of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Imperial official vehicle, Toyota Century Royal "Empress 1". The Imperial Palace has a £2 million-a-year clinic with 42 staff and 8 medical departments. An example of lavish spending is the prior redecoration of a room for £140,000 where Crown Princess Masako gave birth to Princess Aiko in 2001.

  5. Crest of the Royal Family - Wikipedia

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    Using the items of a secret grave of a daughter of King Nefermaat in the desert, he counterfeits the evidence to become a royal. Berto (ベルト, Beruto): the former jail-mate of Nebamen. Mekmek (メクメク, Mekumeku): an ambitious woman sent to the Egyptian palace by Kapta as a palace maid.

  6. Royal and noble ranks of the Qing dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Whether imperial or not, the inheritance or bestowal was never automatic, and had to be approved by the Emperor, the Ministry of Personnel, or the Imperial Clan Court. Imperial princes, upon reaching adulthood at the age of 20, had to pass tests in horse-riding, archery and the Manchu language before they were eligible for titles. Imperial ...

  7. Byzantine flags and insignia - Wikipedia

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    The frequent use of the star and crescent moon symbol, which appears on coins, military insignia and, perhaps, as a sometime municipal emblem of the imperial city, appears to be connected to the cult of Hecate Lampadephoros ("light-bearer") in Hellenistic-era Byzantium.

  8. Russian nobility - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, the lower classes (an overwhelming majority of the Russian population) lived virtually isolated from the upper classes and the imperial court. Thus, most of the nobility's “western” tendencies were largely aesthetic and confined to a tiny proportion of the populace.

  9. Royal cypher - Wikipedia

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    The use of a royal cypher in the Commonwealth realms originated in the United Kingdom, where the public use of the royal initials dates at least from the early Tudor period, and was simply the initial of the sovereign with, after Henry VIII's reign, the addition of the letter 'R' for 'Rex' or 'Regina' (Latin for "king" and "queen" respectively).