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  • White House Memo on NASA Management Order of Succession is the next entry in this blog.

    More Fake News From UK Tabloids - NASA Watch 2009

  • "Succession is always the Achilles 'heel of regimes like this," said Aidan Foster-Carter, a North Korea expert at Leeds University, who has noted the flurry of changes at the top of the regime in the past year.

    North Korean elite secretly jostle for the reins of power Peter Beaumont 2010

  • Whether God Created all Creatures together, or in Succession of time.

    The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692

  • In numerical terms, the last time the Army disposed of so few infantry battalions was before the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, that is since the days of the Duke of Marlborough.

    Archive 2007-08-19 2007

  • In numerical terms, the last time the Army disposed of so few infantry battalions was before the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, that is since the days of the Duke of Marlborough.

    Tomorrow Is Always Too Late 2007

  • It has since been published as one book by the SFBC under the title Succession and will be out next year in the UK in one volume, confusingly, titled The Risen Empire.

    REVIEW: The Killing of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld 2004

  • Many long "acknowledgments of supremacy" are extant (Camm, "English Martyrs", I, 401) but it would seem that most people were only asked to swear to the Succession, that is to the king's marriage with Anne Boleyn, which the pope condemned, and which therefore involved the supremacy, though the form of the Oath of Succession preserved in The Lords 'Journals, refers to the supremacy with insidious lightness.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • The first part of a two-book novel called "Succession", The Risen Empire is a story of a stagnating empire, ruled by the immortal dead.

    Word count amusement... sbisson_links 2005

  • Scott Westerfeld began his "Succession" duology with _The Risen Empire_, describing a realm of eighty worlds ruled by the dead.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Y. Kurihara, "Studies of 'Succession' in a Microcosm," Sci.

    Chapter 7 1983

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