By offering up the blood of a lamb, Silvia, the protagonist of Upon the Dull Earth, is able to summon creatures she identifies as angels.

As it investigates these questions, first at an epistemological level and then at an ontological one, Upon the Dull Earth unfolds like a conventional horror plot.

Upon Xavier's return to Earth as seen in the World War Hulk storyline, he begins to search for lost mutants such as Magneto.

Upon reaching Mars, the upper stage would be jettisoned, with the Habitat Unit aerobraking into Mars orbit before soft-landing in proximity to the Earth Return Vehicle.

Upon reaching Earth, she demanded Earth's surrender and proclaimed herself Empress.

Upon return, the traveler will find that he has aged two years, while 200 years have passed on Earth.

Upon encountering Humans, he decides to possess the body of a young Egyptian boy and rules the planet Earth as a God.

Upon his arrival on Earth, the Monk has several humorous misadventures.

Upon return to Earth, the Howards learn that a rejuvenation treatment has been developed to approximate the secret of longevity supposedly held by themselves ; thus permitting Lazarus, who is grown old, to regain his youth.

Upon the ending of Oduduwa's time on Earth, there was a dispersal of his children from Ife to the outposts that they had previously founded inorder for them to establish effective control over these places.

* There Were Giants Upon the Earth: Gods, Demigods, and Human Ancestry: The Evidence of Alien DNA, ( Bear & Company ), 2010, ISBN 978-1-59143-121-3

Upon their return to Earth Pukko is ashamed of his attitude toward humans before that point, Shinichi is reunited with Koichi, and Bokko is transformed by Nokko and Pukko into an Earth girl so she'll have a chance to be with Shinichi as the human girl she really wants to be-for a short time, anyway.

Upon awakening, Megatron and his Decepticons discovered that Earth was a world teeming with organic life and vast energy resources, more than enough to re-power Cybertron and allow the Decepticons to conquer it and other worlds.

Upon returning to Earth, the empty spacecraft unexpectedly burns up due to a faulty heat shield during re-entry.

Upon her release, she and her army of evil space aliens set their sights on conquering the nearest planet: Earth.

Upon its publication, Unaccustomed Earth achieved the rare distinction of debuting at number 1 on The New York Times best seller list.

Upon returning to Earth, Savitskaya was assigned as the commander of an all-female Soyuz crew to Salyut 7 in commemoration of the International Women's Day, a mission that was later canceled.

Upon crashing on the planet Gunsmoke, any advanced technology from the days of Earth is referred to as lost technology.

Upon their return to Earth, Gambit assisted the X-Men and X-Factor in battling the Shadow King, though he was temporarily controlled by the Shadow King.

Upon their release from the Phantom Zone ( The Phantom Zone mini-series, 1982 ) they sought out ' pleasures ' on Earth using their powers indiscriminately on the populace.

Upon escaping the Phantom Zone, Clark accidentally releases Raya and various prisoners and phantoms to Earth.

Upon settling the Earth, the Oankali took many " seeds " and planted them.

Upon the hidden island of Dinotopia, humans and dinosaurs live and work together in harmony with one another and with the Earth itself.

Upon discovery that Luna has been taken to Earth by Pietro, Medusa advises Crystal that perhaps it is right that Pietro should spend time with his daughter.

Upon recognizing that he has time-traveled to the sixth century, Hank realizes that he is the de facto smartest person on Earth, and with his knowledge he should soon be running things.

Upon his death, the Korean Central News Agency claimed that the ice on the lake cracked " so loud, it seemed to shake the Heavens and the Earth.

Upon receipt of an application which the Export-Import Bank is prepared to consider, the Export-Import Bank will inform the Department of Economic Affairs of the identity of the applicant, the nature of the proposed business, the amount of the proposed loan, and the general purposes for which the loan proceeds would be expended.

Upon consideration of the variety of soils and fabrics normally encountered in the washing process, it is little wonder that the use of a number of detergent constituents having `` synergistic '' properties has gained widespread acceptance.

Upon completion of the purging step, additional initiator appropriate for the molecular weight of the sample desired is added, and the system is then warmed to the polymerization temperature, at which the reaction is allowed to go to completion.

Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' is a problem piece about a man and a woman and the three `` figures '' that bother them somehow.

# Upon resisting to the point of unbelief, one is unable again to believe … able only to resist.

Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains.

Upon declaring the game over, the player is allowed to complete his turn ( including buying stock ).

A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.

Vinge's novel, A Deepness in the Sky ( 1999 ), is a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set 20, 000 years earlier and featuring Pham Nuwen.

Upon receiving the evidence of al-Ala's defeat in al-Andalus, al-Mansur is said to have gasped, “ God be praised for placing a sea between us ”!

Upon close examination of the works attributed to Aelbert Cuyp it is easily understood why his unique style developed the way it did, and how his works have been misinterpreted over the years.

Upon his return, the Buddha says, among other things, that Pasenadi is " a friend of virtue, acquainted with virtue, intimate with virtue ", while the opposite is said of the aggressor, King Ajatasattu.

Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

Upon heating, α-berkelium transforms into another phase with an fcc lattice ( but slightly different from β-berkelium ), space group Fmm and the lattice constant of 500 pm ; this fcc structure is equivalent to the closest packing with the sequence ABC.

Upon activating the amulet, the player is informed of his / her past by his / her dead father, after which the player is transported to the town of Crossroads, and Part I ends.

Upon binding, the complex is taken into the cell via receptor-mediated endocytosis.

Upon action potential ( cardiac contraction ), more calcium is released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum and this gives a positive inotropic effect ( higher contractility ).

Upon the death of the Dalai Lama and consultation with the Nechung Oracle, a search for the Lama's reincarnation, or yangsi ( yang srid ), is conducted.

Upon disconnecting, the IP address is returned to the pool for use by another computer.

Upon returning the door to the closed position, power is restored.