Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

The heiress of $10 billion Perdue Farms and the $12 billion Sheraton Hotels empire wore hand-me-downs, still rides the subway, and flies economy. Emma Burleigh. Updated June 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM.

He would later attend and graduate from Columbia University’s School of Business after serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy for three years.He formally joined Estée Lauder at age 25 in 1958, when ...

Leonard Lauder, former head of Estée Lauder Companies, dies at 92. His legacy includes transforming the beauty industry and philanthropic contributions.

King George V and Queen Mary were officially coronated as the Emperor and Empress of India in December 1911 at the Delhi Durbar. This was the third Delhi Durbar, with the first two having taken place ...

Both the Empire Outlets and the once-planned site of the New York Wheel will be topics of discussion at the event to be held Monday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at suite 301 at the Outlets.

In their weekly YouTube show about all things gay, Artem “Art” Bezrukavenko and Cooper Hayes complained they haven’t seen the Empire State Building illuminated in rainbow colors for Pride ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. The Internet Archive keeps the record straight by preserving government websites, news publications, historical documents, and more. If you find ...

The movie “Hershey,” about the life of chocolate magnate Milton S. Hershey and his wife, Catherine “Kitty” Hershey, has been offering up sweet morsels of old-fashioned moviecraft and ...