I bought a start of the hosta Empress Wu a few years ago after I’d heard about it at the American Hosta Association convention in 2008, the year of its introduction. It was hyped to be the ...

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and he recently ranked first on the super-billionaires index!Recently, the ...

While both crepe myrtle trees and hostas are gorgeous, it may not be the best idea to use them as companion plants. Discover ...

1. Empress Wu ‘Empress Wu’ is one of, if not the largest of all hosta varieties. It easily grows taller than four feet (1.2 m) and wider than four to five feet (1.2 to 1.5 m). The leaves are ...

Eventually, she exiled Ruizong as well – making herself Emperor Wu in 690AD. Although she is sometimes referred to as Empress Wu, she was really Emperor Wu, as at the height of her power she ...

To spice things up, Empress Wu Zetian of China (the only woman to hold the title of an emperor) had to establish an actual institute known as Kong He Jian to manage her large number of lovers.

Qianling, the tomb of the third Tang emperor, Li Zhi, and Empress Wu Zetian, is located on Liangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers north of Qianxian County seat and 80 kilometers from Xi'an. Here also ...

Within three years she gave birth to two sons, then a daughter who soon died. Wu accused the Empress Wang of strangling the child (whom she had reputedly murdered herself), and persuaded the ...

How did she do it? She did so with ruthless determination – she killed her own newborn child – and then framed the Empress for the murder. Wu Zetian (624-705) of the Tang dynasty Wu Zetian ...

Wu Zetian is a Chinese television series based on the life story of Wu Zetian, the only woman in Chinese history to assume the title of Empress Regnant and became the de facto ruler of China in ...