viceroy

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“And the viceroy Mike Davis tells me — since it doesn’t actually say consecutive — that, I don’t know, maybe we do it again in ‘28?

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

“Her father had been a page to the Marquis de Fuentes, viceroy of Naples. Her mother came from a patrician family of some standing.”

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022

The last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, set the date as 15 August 1947.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2022

The viceroy initially offered two obelisks from Alexandria, the so-called Cleopatra’s needles, but Champollion suggested the Luxor Obelisks as a substitute, because of the exquisite quality of their hieroglyphics.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

That still left open the question of who would manage Livermore day to day, in effect as Lawrences viceroy.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik