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The British monarchy lost most of its power in the Magna Carta in 01215, was interrupted by the establishment of the Commonwealth in 01649, was replaced by the Glorious Revolution in 01688, lost most of its remaining power to Parliament in 01689, and became British in 01707. I'll give you the Roman Empire, which lasted close to 1500 years, and also, for example, the Imamate of Oman, the Japanese Imperial Family (which has lost and regained its power over Japan two or three times), and Al-Azhar University, which celebrated its thousandth birthday about 50 years ago. There are a few other examples.



> 01215

Why are you prefixing the years with a zero, is that a thing? Are you preparing for those who might read this in a few millenia after us?


It is octal, write '01215' in a browser javascript console and you get '653'.

(Not sure if that is what he meant, but if he did that for ease of parsing it will just make it harder)


Makes it easier to cater for events in the span of 30-40k. I'm the grim darkness of the future, there will in fact be long lived institutions.


You are the grim darkness of the future?


Haha thanks auto-correct!




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