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* Guess how long [[Those Wacky Nazis]] expected the Third Reich to last.
* Ancient Chinese emperors tend to be greeted with "May you reign for 10,000 years" but most dynasties only lasts about 400 years or so.
* The ruling house of Japan is an inversion: the Japanese Tenno (emperors) claim an unbroken line that goes back more than 6,000 years, while the Japanese as a people have existed for less than 2,000 years, with no unbroken line to speak of (not even through adoption, thanks to lots of power struggles). The ancestoral line of Tennos was 'reconstructed' in the 7th century and its continuity is mostly fictional. However, it is fairly certain that the house itself has actually succeeded in ruling Japan for 1,000
** "Tenno hekka banzai" the battle cry that gives the phrase "banzai charge" means literally "Ten thousand years! [ to the Emperor]"
* The Habsburg dynasty had in one way or the other held power for ''at least'' six centuries. But this hasn't stop some of the early ones from claiming descent from as far afield as Agamemnon and even King David from the Bible. Naturally, their descendants pretty much retracted those.
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