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| | Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Yet he is not a male-line member of the royal family, and is therefore not a dynast of the House of Windsor. | | | Yet he was born in the line of succession to the British crown and is bound by the Royal Marriages Act 1772. | | | For example, following his abdication, Edward VIII of the United Kingdom ceased to be a dynastic member of the House of Windsor. |
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| | Nicaragua - MSN Encarta |
| | Nicaragua ranks among the poorest nations in Central America, after years of corrupt dictatorship, natural disasters, revolution, and civil war. | | | The Somozas, who enjoyed strong U.S. support, were overthrown in 1979 by the Sandinistas, Marxist revolutionaries who promised social and economic reforms. | | | Nicaragua has had a stormy history, marred by internal conflicts and intervention by other nations, especially the United States. |
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| | Hexapedia - Dynasty |
| | Though in democratic governments rule does not pass automatically by inheritance, political power often accrues to generations of related individuals; see, for example, the list of U.S. political families, which includes the Kennedys, Bushes, and Adamses. | | | Entertainment Dynasty was a TV soap opera about an oil tycoon and his family. | | | A dynasty is a family or extended family which retains political power across generations, or more generally, any organization which extends dominance in its field even as its particular members change. |
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