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Swiftly, he dispatched the megas domestikos John Axouch ahead of him, with orders to arrest his most dangerous potential rival, his brother Isaac, who was living in the Great Palace with instant access to the imperial treasure and regalia.
The original blue dust jacket by Ellen Raskin was replaced with new art by Leo and Diane Dillon with the publication of A Swiftly Tilting Planet in 1978.
Note that although Many Waters was published approximately eight years after A Swiftly Tilting Planet, it takes place several years earlier, when Sandy and Dennys are in high school and Meg is in college.
In 1766, he was given a prize medal by the Catch Club for his " O that I had wings ', and in all he obtained twenty-seven medals for as many canons, catches, and glees, including " Discord, dire sister ", " Glory be to the Father ", " Swiftly from the mountain's brow ", and " To thee all angels ".
The Arm of the Starfish is Poly's first appearance, as such, but Meg Murry O ' Keefe was pregnant with her at the time of A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
Since many adverbs end in " ly " this kind of pun was originally called a Tom Swiftly, the archetypal example being " We must hurry ," said Tom Swiftly.
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# Swiftly remove the old keystone and insert the new one, then give it a tap with the mallet.
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Swiftly spun off into their own title in Oct / Nov 1960, the Justice League would become the backbone of the DC Universe, and thanks to the concept of the multiverse, regularly engage in annual " team-up " s with their 1940s counter-parts, the Justice Society in tales written by Fox.
The Officer Commanding 2 Company decided on a design by Warrant Officer Ronald Nordhoff, a dagger and boomerang, with the motto " Strike Swiftly ".
Swiftly establishing himself as head propagandist, it is not long before Featherston, aided by Party member Ferdinand Koenig, becomes its leader.
Swiftly falling in with a so called " word anarchist " named Warren, she might come face to face with the slowly degenerating Book, who is distraught and unhinged over his master's death by possibly his own hands.
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Swiftly defeating the local Ottoman forces and overrunning the province, Ibrahim crushed an Ottoman army in Anatolia and prepared to march on Constantinople.
Swiftly Taksin made a strategic plan and under it recaptured Ayutthaya in one year.
Its motto is Scite, Cite, Certo, Latin for Skilfully, Swiftly, Surely.
* In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, a family, descended from the legendary Madoc, whose decisions determine the course of human history.
Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one ; a shifting harmony of subpatterns.
The action of the story follows that of A Wind in the Door but precedes the climactic, apocalyptic events of A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
Written after A Swiftly Tilting Planet, it nevertheless takes place about five years before that book, and about five years after A Wrinkle in Time.
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* L ' Engle, Madeleine ( 1978 ): A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
" The Echthroi reappear in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, trying to prevent Charles Wallace from reaching key moments in history in a bid to save the world from nuclear destruction.
In 1996, Kerr, in his book of that year called Swiftly Seasoned, created the concept of a " Moulded Ethnic Vegetable ", a baked combination of starches and vegetables seasoned with flavours characteristic of different ethnic cuisines.
Swiftly replacing the existing constitution with one strengthening the powers of the presidency, he became the elected president in December of that year, inaugurating France's Fifth Republic.
Morley and Bowes reunited in 2002 for the soul influenced album Moving Swiftly Along.
Through kything, humans can be together inside a subcellular mitochondrion, as seen in A Wind in the Door, or in communication despite being centuries apart, as seen in A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
Meg also spends much of A Swiftly Tilting Planet kything with her brother, Charles Wallace, thus experiencing vicariously his travels in time while supporting his efforts with research and prayer.
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After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.
* August 29, 2005, Katrina ( Category 3 at landfall ) struck and devastated southeastern Louisiana, where it breached and undermined levees in New Orleans, causing 80 % of the city to flood.
A second offensive under the command of Scipio Aemilianus resulted in a three-year siege before he breached the walls, sacked the city, and systematically burned Carthage to the ground in 146 BC.
The walls are finally breached and the city is completely destroyed by order of the Roman Senate, despite Scipio's protests.
After attempts by Josephus to negotiate a surrender had failed, the Romans resumed hostilities and quickly breached the first and second walls of the city.
In December, Rantzau's forces breached the walls and stormed the city.
When the Crusaders finally took the city, they decided that their oaths to Alexius had breen breached and were no longer in effect.
He sought political asylum in the house of the Brazilian Ambassador in the north of Quito, after his attempt to leave the city aboard a plane at Quito International Airport was thwarted by hundreds of angry protesters that breached airport security and blocked the airstrip.
However, the new government was destroyed by Dong Zhuo's former subjects Li Jue and Guo Si when they breached the city gate of Chang ' an.
The assault was successful and the walls were breached, but the commanders supposedly lost control of their soldiers and a massacre of the populace ensued in which 25, 000 of the 30, 000 inhabitants of the city perished by sword and the fire which destroyed most of the city.
According to, the city wall was breached in the summer month of Tammuz in the eleventh year of Zedekiah.
The Jewish defenders of Jerusalem retreated to their synagogue to " prepare for death " once the Crusaders had breached the outer walls of the city during the siege of 1099.
By the summer of 70, the Romans had breached the walls of Jerusalem, ransacking and burning nearly the entire city.
Polish commandment did not anticipate serious resistance and Polish soldiers were to breached German positions at the outskirts of city, flew into the center and hold it until Soviet army arrives.
The city walls were breached by cannon during a siege in 1374.
Belinus continued forward until the walls were breached and the Britons invaded the city.
Brennius and Belinus continued forward until the walls were breached and the Britons and Gauls invaded the city.
The walls were also breached in four areas to ease access to the city: the southwestern end of Calle Aduana ( now Andres Soriano Jr. Ave .); the eastern end of Calle Anda ; the northeastern end of Calle Victoria ( previously known as Calle de la Escuela ); and the southeastern end of Calle Palacio ( now General Luna Street ).
Early in the siege the walls were breached and a number of troops entered the city but they were all killed and Demetrius didn't press the attack.
Around dawn on August 17, Grande Armée Polish forces successfully breached the walls, and in a few hours the main French forces entered the city.
Brennius and Belinus continued forward until the walls were breached and the Britons and Gauls invaded the city.
The Siege of Padua began on 15 September ; although French and Imperial artillery successfully breached Padua's walls, the defenders managed to hold the city until Maximilian, growing impatient, lifted the siege on 30 September and withdrew to Tyrol with the main part of his army.
Firstly, the walls of the besieged city of Jerusalem were breached.
However, after a long siege its walls were breached and despite fierce fighting within the city, Kiev fell on December 6, 1240 and was largely destroyed.
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