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unusual facts about Captain Vorpatril's Alliance


Advance copy

Although ARCs are usually free promotional items, some early versions of books are sold to the public while labeled ARCs, e.g. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold.


Book of Exalted Deeds

The book also appears in the computer game Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance as an artifact granting a bonus to character level and wisdom to good-aligned priest characters for as long as they possess it.

Fathers of the Constitution

represented the centre-right Union of the Democratic Centre; Manuel Fraga Iribarne, the centre-right People's Alliance; Gregorio Peces-Barba, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party; Jordi Solé Tura, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia and Miguel Roca Junyent, of the Democratic Pact for Catalonia, represented the Catalan nationalists.

Lyndsay McIntosh

After parliament was dissolved she followed her colleague Keith Harding and defected to the newly formed Scottish People's Alliance.

People's Alliance

The People's Alliance (Bulgaria), a Bulgarian party created in 1921 aiming to stop the growing influence of the leftists; in 1923 it joined the Democratic Alliance

The Pakatan Rakyat, an informal Malaysian political coalition known as the People's Alliance in English


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