All the king's horses and all the king's men ...

A New Tang Dynasty?

All the king's men.

The royal family lives in the Imperial Palace.

At the end of the retreat, a service is held.

The mixing of Songhai and Berber people would eventually give rise to the Dia dynasty.

Only after a century and a half of confusion was the royal authority restored.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

Perhaps the Royal Household itself should be tasked with filing such charges.

Hainan was one of the last areas of China controlled by the Republic of China.

Syria s Assad dynasty, however, seems to believe that it can defy that dictum.

As in the past, when a dynasty weakens, the provinces make their own decisions.

The Al Saud resembles a family business, established in 1932.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

The Mijalkov Gruevski political dynasty has held power during much of Macedonia's transition to democracy.

In Korea, the Yi dynasty ruled from 1382 until the Japanese conquest of 1910.

And the final word is that there is a king cobra looking over our shoulders.

Guillermo y Máxima, the crown couple , got married in 2002 at the Nieuw Kerk in Amsterdam.

The al Saud face two threats one from violent Islamists, and the other from liberal reformers.

... Incorporation, not annexation ... The incorporation was an act of free will, in the logical order of geography and history ... .

American author Robert Penn Warren touched upon the tide of history in his magnum opus All the King's Men

Whether to institutions like RADA or to individuals and certainly to me, his advice was always spot on.

He later named another son of the same sister, Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, who did indeed succeed him.

Domestically, the royal family struck quickly, adopting a ban on public demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience.

The Royal Thai Army declared martial law on May 20 and launched a coup two days after.

There was only one change of dynasty in China between 1368 and the end of the imperial era in 1911.

The country's religious laws and character central to the regime's legitimacy undermine liberal forces, and many Saudis fear that the pressures surrounding religious and political reform will lead to an explosion.

The al Saud royal family failed to back the US effort in Iraq because of domestic concerns.

This occurred in 1908, when D. Carlos was murdered in Lisbon as he travelled in an open carriage with the royal family.

At great monarchical displays, such as the royal wedding in London, millions become enthralled by child like dreams of a fairy tale marriage.

A whole dynasty has lived in this apartment (room!) my grandmother and grandfather, my mom and dad, my husband and I, and my daughter and granddaughter.

Its recent shelling of South Korea suggests that the failing Kim dynasty might set East Asia alight rather than undertake any serious reform.

The Bagrationi dynasty had ruled Georgia from the 10th century until the early 19th century, when Russia colonized Georgia and abolished the monarchy.

The royal family is empowered to administer the country, but through consultation with different sectors, like tribal leaders or merchant groups.

A key early test of Abdullah s kingship will be if he can succeed in freeing the hundreds of political reformers now in prison, especially three respected academics whom he encouraged to make reform proposals, only to be incarcerated by Naif.

Jeng Reni, the youngest daughter of Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, married Achmad Ubaidillah, known affectionately as Yuda, and for the first time ever, a royal wedding was reported in realtime through Twitter.

Indeed, ever since the Qin Dynasty united the country and established a centralized regime some 2,000 years ago, accountability for debt has been treated as a central government problem.

In Germany, the Mohn family dismissed the lead manager of Bertelsmann, Thomas Middelhoff, who wanted to turn a family company into an almost denationalized enterprise.

In France, Jean Marie Messier was deposed from Vivendi Universal for similar reasons, and the Lagardère dynasty tried to regain control.

Domestic pressure on the Saudi royal family, the al Sauds, arises from widespread opposition to any war against Iraq, as well as to America s military presence.

So was the Royal Academy of Sciences mistaken in not giving its award of a Nobel Prize to Einstein for what most people would consider his most important intellectual discovery?

Although the Saudi ruling family, the al Saud, is under enormous pressure to follow the example of its neighbors, internal resistance to doing so remains very strong.

But what incoming chairman would risk coming in, crashing around and dismantling an institution as complex as a Chinese dynasty in case they put themselves out of a job in the process.

Abbeville was fairly important in the 18th century, when the Van Robais Royal Manufacture (one of the first major factories in France) brought great prosperity (but some class controversy) to the town.

Under regional and international pressure, the Saudi ruling family has constructed a Potemkin village of reform while retaining absolute control over all political developments.