Known and beloved for her iconic roles as Professor McGonagall in Harry Potter and the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey, Dame Maggie's life was celebrated in a ceremony described as "beautiful ...

Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi arrogated all powers onto herself. This period, called the Guangxu Xuantong Reign, was China's darkest and most corrupt political period.

But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges of incompetence. She then issued imperial edicts "from behind the curtains" that she and Dowager Empress Cian ...

Y ou might not be aware of the medical term kyphosis, but chances are you will have heard of a ‘dowager’s hump’, or its ...

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Han Hsiang Li's lush epic re-creates the fascinating life and times of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who rose from the ranks of Emperor Xianfeng's many concubines to become the de facto ...

In her groundbreaking new biography, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), Jung Chang tells the extraordinary life story of China's Empress Cixi ...

Smith is perhaps best known to contemporary audiences for the roles of Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films and Violet Crawley, the acerbic Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey. Smith won ...

LADY Eleanor, the Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, was the Queen Victoria of North Yorkshire. She was born in 1820, a year after Victoria. She was a Grosvenor, the eldest child of the Duke of ...

The dowagers of local journalism attempted to give elementary deportment lessons to this child who spake as a god, and to their horror were themselves rebuked. Thus began the long exchange of ...

Sherry is a wine, usually fortified with grape brandy, made from grapes grown in a large triangle of vineyards surrounding the city of Jerez. Almost all of them are dry, and all are aged to ...

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