The rickety old dynasty teeters on.
The papacy is the world's oldest dynasty, and that is its burden.
But if this was the old dynasty finally giving way to the new, it was a worthy exchange for both sides.
Jigme Khesar, like his father before him, is hugely popular.The new king, the fifth of the 100-year-old dynasty, pledged to follow the path of democratisation and development embarked on by his 52-year-old father.
He epitomises the very feature of the constitution that the meritocrats of New Labour find repugnant, namely that under Britain's present arrangements people like the Cecils are still born to rule.This is, after all, a very old dynasty.
Da Yu, ( Chinese: "Yu the Great") Wade-Giles romanization Ta Yü, in Chinese mythology, the Tamer of the Flood, a saviour-hero and reputed founder of China's oldest dynasty, the Xia.
Srikanda Stpathy, a sculptor of Hindu idols, is the last of a 700-year-old dynasty of craftsmen stretching back to the great bronze casters of the Chola empire.
The arena was pulsating, loud and boisterous, like all the afternoons at Madison Square Garden when the Knicks were in the game, like the night in Salt Lake City when the old dynasty was trying to keep the peasants from crossing the moat.
This month, I chatted with Burt about what that story says about how Trump, a real-estate magnate who has been in office only fourteen months, might deal with Kim Jong Un, the third leader in a seventy-year-old dynasty, during the President's first stab at real nuclear diplomacy.
Yet controversy still rages over a man who, to many Ethiopians, is not merely a symbol of long-gone royal power but part of the oldest dynasty in the world, a ruler who claimed direct descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
