Following the bad news, investors watched the doughnut kingdom crumble as shares plunged 31.8%, or $2.01, to $4.32 in afternoon trading.
He both created a kingdom he could play god in and is helping that kingdom crumble.
Sitting atop a stark conical summit, King Herod's mountain eyrie of Mukawir (the site of ancient Machaerus) is a lonely and rather lovely spot where the sparse ruins fight a modern battle against the weeds as a reminder of how kingdoms crumble.
His death brought about a widespread dislocation of the Macedonian kingdom, which crumbled into several smaller states.
That this is an old, dark world where magic matters and kingdoms can crumble and fall.
Here is the reduced Shakespeare: power-hungry mystery man from far-off land inherits crumbling little kingdom and seduces all and sundry with the promise of glories beyond their wildest dreams.
3 p.m. 1) OLD KINGDOM Packed with crumbling old stupas, jewel-encrusted temples and wooden houses, Chiang Mai's central old city hasn't lost its old charm.
Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms and which finally fell to Ottoman Turkish onslaughts in 1453.
The premise for the adult animated comedy series is one involving "the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland," where characters will include a "hard-drinking young princess Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo, and her personal demon Luci," among other ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses, and "lots of human fools," says Netflix, in its announcement of the new series.
