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Empire Airlines
Empire Airlines is an American cargo airline based in Hayden, Idaho, serving as a FedEx Feeder carrier across the western United States and Alaska since 1988.
Empire Builder
The Empire Builder is a daily Amtrak long-distance train between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest, splitting at Spokane for Seattle or Portland on a route through Montana.
Empire City (film)
Empire City: upcoming Gerard Butler and Hayley Atwell action thriller directed by Michael Matthews, written by Brian Tucker and S. Craig Zahler, about a Melbourne-shot hostage-crisis siege in New York's Clybourn Building.
Empire Company
Empire Company Limited is a Stellarton, Nova Scotia holding company whose principal asset is Sobeys, a national grocer with over 1,600 stores and about $32 billion in annual sales.
Empire Distribution
Empire Distribution (EMPIRE), founded by Ghazi Shami in San Francisco in 2010, is an independent distributor, record label, and publisher known for non-exclusive artist-friendly deals, early Kendrick Lamar and XXXTentacion releases, a 2018 UMG partnership, and expansion into Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Empire Earth
Empire Earth, historical real-time strategy series by Stainless Steel Studios (Rick Goodman, ex-Ensemble), Sierra-published 2001; 500,000 years, 14 epochs, five resources; GameSpy 2001 GOTY, 2M+ sales, fan-revived multiplayer.
Empire of AI
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI is a 2025 investigative nonfiction work. It examines how major AI firms extract global data and labor.
Empire of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil (Império do Brasil), 1822–1889, a constitutional monarchy under Pedro I and Pedro II, retained Portugal's territorial inheritance while Spanish America fragmented; defined by the 1824 Constitution's Moderating Power, slavery, and the 1889 military coup.
Empire of Death (Doctor Who episode)
Empire of Death is the 2024 season 1 finale of Doctor Who, episode 8, written by Russell T Davies and directed by Jamie Donoughue, in which Sutekh (voiced by Gabriel Woolf) spreads death across the universe before the Doctor drags him through the Time Vortex and Ruby Sunday leaves the TARDIS.
Empire of Dust
Empire of Dust is a 2011 Belgian documentary by Bram Van Paesschen following CREC logistics manager Lao Yang and Congolese interpreter Eddy rebuilding a 300 km road between Kolwezi and Lubumbashi, DRC; it won Docville 2012's Best Belgian Documentary award.
Empire of Japan (大日本帝国)
Empire of Japan (大日本帝国, Dai Nippon Teikoku), the Japanese state from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to the 1947 constitution: Meiji modernization, 1889 Prussian-modeled constitution, colonial expansion including Korea's 1910 annexation, and dissolution after the 1945 surrender.
Empire of Kitara
The Empire of Kitara, also called the Chwezi Empire, is a polity of East African oral tradition, at its height in the 14th and 15th centuries over much of Uganda.
Empire of Light
Empire of Light (2022) is Sam Mendes's romantic drama, his first solo screenplay, starring Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward at a faded early-1980s English seaside cinema; Searchlight release, Roger Deakins cinematography, Oscar-nominated, mixed reviews (RT 44%, Metacritic 54).
Empire of Lust (순수의 시대)
Empire of Lust (순수의 시대, Sunsu-ui sidae) is a 2015 South Korean historical drama by Ahn Sang-hoon, set in 1398 Joseon around the First Strife of Princes, starring Shin Ha-kyun, Jang Hyuk, Kang Han-na, and Kang Ha-neul; released March 5, 2015, 113 minutes, adults-only rating.
Empire of Nicaea (Αυτοκρατορία της Νίκαιας)
Empire of Nicaea (Αυτοκρατορία της Νίκαιας), Byzantine successor state in exile 1204–1261, ruled by the Laskarids from Nicaea in northwestern Anatolia; strongest claimant after 1204, took Thessalonica 1246, won Pelagonia 1259, and recaptured Constantinople in 1261 under Michael VIII Palaiologos.
Empire of Pain
Empire of Pain is Patrick Radden Keefe's 2021 narrative nonfiction account of the Sackler family and their role in the opioid crisis, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize.
Empire of Passion (愛の亡霊)
Empire of Passion (愛の亡霊, Ai no bōrei), also L'Empire de la passion, is Nagisa Oshima's 1978 Japan-France kaidan ghost story about lovers who murder the woman's husband, winning Cannes Best Director 1978.
Empire of Sin (video game)
Empire of Sin is a 2020 strategy game by Romero Games and Paradox Interactive set in Prohibition-era Chicago, with 14 playable mob bosses, business management, and XCOM-style turn-based combat; released December 1, 2020 on PC, Mac, and consoles.
Empire of the Ants (film)
Empire of the Ants is a 1977 American science fiction horror film directed by Bert I. Gordon, loosely based on an H. G. Wells story and starring Joan Collins.
Empire of the Sun (band)
Empire of the Sun, Australian electro-pop duo formed 2006 by Luke Steele (The Sleepy Jackson) and Nick Littlemore (Pnau); debut Walking on a Dream (2008), albums Ice on the Dune, Two Vines, Ask That God (2024), eight ARIA Awards.
Empire of the Sun (film)
Empire of the Sun is Steven Spielberg's 1987 war drama adapted from J.G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel, starring a young Christian Bale as Jim, a British boy interned in Japanese-occupied Shanghai; the first western production to film in Shanghai since World War II, it earned six Oscar nominations but underperformed at the box office.
Empire of Thessalonica
The Empire of Thessalonica was a Byzantine Greek polity centered on Thessalonica from 1224 to 1246, created when Theodore Komnenos Doukas of Epirus captured the city and crowned himself emperor.
Empire of Trebizond (Αυτοκρατορία της Τραπεζούντας)
The Empire of Trebizond (Αυτοκρατορία της Τραπεζούντας) was a Greek Byzantine successor state on the southeastern Black Sea coast, ruled 1204–1461 by the Megas Komnenos dynasty.
Empire of Vietnam
Empire of Vietnam (Đế quốc Việt Nam), the Japanese-sponsored state proclaimed March 11, 1945 under Emperor Bảo Đại with Trần Trọng Kim as premier, after Japan's March 9 coup; it collapsed in August 1945 when Bảo Đại abdicated and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was founded.
Empire Petroleum Corporation
Empire Petroleum Corporation is a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based independent oil and gas company that acquires and optimizes mature producing properties, with operations in New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, and Louisiana.
Empire Polo Club
Empire Polo Club, Indio, California polo club founded 1987 by Alexander Haagen III; former major West Coast polo venue and since 1999 home of Coachella and Stagecoach festivals, leased to Goldenvoice in 2021.
Empire Records
Empire Records (1995) is an Allan Moyle comedy-drama, written by Carol Heikkinen, about Delaware record-store clerks fighting a corporate takeover; a box-office flop that became a cult classic with Rex Manning Day on April 8.
Empire Stadium (Vancouver)
Empire Stadium, Vancouver: open-air stadium at Hastings Park (PNE), built 1954 for the British Empire and Commonwealth Games; site of the Miracle Mile, home of the BC Lions and Whitecaps, demolished early 1990s.
Empire State (2013 film)
Empire State (2013) is a Dito Montiel crime drama, written by Adam Mazer, starring Liam Hemsworth, Michael Angarano, and Dwayne Johnson, based on the real 1982 New York armored car robbery by Chris Potamitis, then the largest cash heist in U.S. history.
Empire State Bastard
Empire State Bastard, British extreme metal band formed 2020 by Simon Neil (Biffy Clyro) and Mike Vennart (Oceansize) with Dave Lombardo and Naomi Macleod; debut album Rivers of Heresy (2023, Roadrunner).