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  • (Would you want to visit a site called “Superheroic Nation” or “Calamitous Street?”)

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to Design Your Blog’s Front Page 2009

  • So far, there's no response from the Allegiance of Heroes, the World Superhero Registry, or the Guild of Calamitous Intent.

    The perils of real-life superheroes (and Craigslist) | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • Calamitous upheavals such as the near-collapse of the financial system are frequently followed by transitions, a move from one set of attitudes and practices to another set.

    For Leadership, Read Stewardship Ken Costa 2010

  • Many people might not think that David Bowie being the all-powerful leader of the Guild of Calamitous Intent is all that funny.

    Instead of Writing wendigomountain 2008

  • When I am asked to recommend a good book describing what a Fourth Generation world will be like, I usually suggest Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century.

    A Neat Blog Laban 2006

  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century/Tuchman – I listened to this unabridged on audio about six or eight years ago and liked it quite well.

    Archive 2005-07-01 KaneCitizen 2005

  • Calamitous presidents, faced with enormous difficulties — Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Hoover and now Bush — have divided the nation, governed erratically and left the nation worse off.

    Firedoglake » Glossies Turn on Bush 2006

  • "Calamitous presidents, faced with enormous difficulties ... have divided the nation, governed erratically and left the nation worse off," Wilentz wrote.

    Shadow America 2006

  • Read Barbara W. Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century — a masterful work of history that reads as smoothly and (dare we say) easily as a great novel.

    11.03 M-mv 2003

  • Read Barbara W. Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century — a masterful work of history that reads as smoothly and (dare we say) easily as a great novel.

    12.03 M-mv 2003

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