This Is Now: Vila Bled (www.vila-bled.com), the lakeside hotel on Slovenia's Lake Bled, was once Tito's summer house, where he entertained other oppressive rulers, among them Ethiopia's Haile Selassie and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser.
They had successfully, under the Maccabees, revolted against the Seleucid tyranny but only, before very long, to see their own rulers, among them the Herods, become as corrupt and as cruel as the foreigners they had displaced and they had later, in 70 A.D., been defeated by the armies of the Roman Titus, which, like those of Nebuchadnezzar, had destroyed their Temple.
For Syria – the Mother of One Arab People, as the Baathists would have it – is a tough creature, its rulers among the most tenacious in the Middle East, used to the slings and arrows of their friends as well as their enemies.
It could also seek support from oil customers overseas, such as China.Ten years is a lifetime for Western finance ministers and oil traders, but for Saudi Arabia's rulers, among whom political lifetimes are actual lifetimes, it is a span that matters.
On the other hand, he might have been one of multiple rulers among the Mercians at the time, ruling only a part of their territory.
Grave monuments of rulers are among the most important remains of ancient civilizations (e.g., the Egyptian pyramids; and the sepulchral structures of Chinese rulers since the Zhou period, c.1046 256 bce).
Unfortunately for later Bahmanī rulers, rivalries among the nobility were to prove just as detrimental to the fortunes of the dynasty as family disputes were in many other dynasties of the period.
The nation's unity is periodically threatened by its clerical rulers' unpopularity among large sections of the population, as well as by regional and ethnic divisions, conflict and instability in its immediate neighbourhood, and the hostility engendered by its regional clients and/or proxies in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
She considers the Egyptian ruler to be "chiefest" among Shakespeare's creations – and directed Kim Cattrall in the role in 2010.
