Yes. Saigo Takamori (who is the influence for the Katsumoto character), the Samurai leader in real life, killed himself in shame by committing suicide, a tradition for Samurai leaders that lost a battle. But in death, the people of Japan honored Takamori as a beloved historic figure and leader. Statues of Takamori appear in Kagoshima Central Park and Ueno Park in Tokyo. No, he wasn't. He was a known hero who disagreed, through principle, with the Western modernization of Japan.

Yes, they did. The code they lived by was called Bushido, which means "way of the warrior." The Bushido was the way of life for Samurai in Japan. The code emphasizes loyalty, faithfulness, self-sacrifice, self-control, honor, sincerity, justice, purity, and a sense of shame should one's honor be lost. As part of the teaching of self-sacrifice, Samurai believed that when they died, they would be reincarnated.

The Samurai lost their final major battle in 1877, however the influence of their code and teachings have remained a part of Japan's culture ever since.

some of the characters and situations are slightly based on reality, Zog the crossdressing ogre is based on my old roommate, he even has the same hair and neck tatts (yes those are in fact tatts) Melvin, the lead goblin of the Ruby Tribe is based on the manager at Ruby Tuesdays (never eat there, trust me) the Ruby Tribe itself is based on the whole Ruby Tuesday's corporation.

The most common Trotskyist assertion to justify the repression of the Kronstadt revolt is that of Trotsky. It basically consists of arguing that the sailors in 1921 were different than those in 1917. Trotsky started this line of justification during the revolt when he stated on March 16th that the Baltic Fleet had been "inevitably thinned out with respect to personnel" and so a "great many of the revolutionary sailors" of 1917 had been "transferred" elsewhere.

The Black Seminole slave rebellion took place from December of 1835 to April of 1838 in central Florida during the first half of the Second Seminole War.[17] Technically, it is a matter of debate whether or not the Black Seminoles themselves should be counted as direct participants in the slave revolt, since most of the Black Seminoles were considered maroons -- Africans who had lived in the wilderness long enough to establish a quasi-free status, albeit one unsanctioned by white society.

Part of Bushido was followed by the Japanese army in WW2, particularly the kamikaze pilots that rammed their planes into U.S. ships. They followed the code and understanding of not fearing death and knowing that they would be reincarnated. But even more prominently, you see part of Bushido in play all over Japan. Most Japanese are extremely honorable people who are loyal and sincere. They feel shame when their honor is lost.

The Art of Usagi Yojimbo #2) Miyamoto Usagi: "The samurai are the military class of feudal Japan. 'Samurai' literally means 'one who serves' and he is absolutely loyal to his lord."

First of all, the American public wasn't ready for any woman president in 1872, especially a divorced one. Respectable women were expected to stay at home and not get their hands dirty with politics. Just running for president made a woman suspect. Secondly, some of her behavior was considered scandalous. People were shocked to find out that her ex-husband was living in the same home with her and her current husband.

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This is a common argument of Trotskyists. While rarely providing the Kronstadt demands, they always assert that (to use John Rees' words) that the sailors "represented the exasperation of the peasantry with the War Communist regime." ["In Defence of October", International Socialism no. 52, p.

Moreover, the Petrograd workers had just experienced the might of the Bolshevik state. As we noted in section 2, the events in Kronstadt were in solidarity with the strike wave in Petrograd at the end of February. Then the Bolsheviks had repressed the workers with "arrests, the use of armed patrols in the streets and in the factories, and the closing and re-registration of an enterprise labour force." [Mary McAuley, Op. Cit., p.

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Comics Buyer's Guide #1235 Interview, 1997) Hawaii has a mixed culture, so I grew up with a great deal of Japanese culture around me. There was a movie theater down the street that showed Japanese movies every weekend. I'd go down every weekend and see the samurai films and the old serials. As I got older I got more into it -- not just the filmmaking, but also the history of Japan. Witty World #1 Interview, 1987) Yes.

Yes. Honor was vital to Samurai, thus if a Samurai leader was defeated in battle and did not die, he would commit a ritual suicide, called Seppuku.

Yes, most of the time. In fact, as part of the ritual it is usually a family member or friend that would slice off his head after the Samurai stabbed himself.

Not at all. My dad was much nicer, better looking, and more of a babe magnet than the one in the novel. THE SWAMP is a fictional composite of three actual casinos, one with a shift manager who didn't believe card counting worked. He offered a winner-take-all freeze-out on several occasions.

It was once more or less assumed that “Yoknapatawpha” was a word coined by Faulkner, but more recently, scholars have noted that the word apparently comes from Chickasaw words meaning “split land.” According to Faulkner, the word means “slow water running through the flatland.” The Yocona River - an actual river in Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner lived-is an abridged form of “Yoknapatawpha.

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The Kronstadt rebellion took place in the first weeks of March, 1921. Kronstadt was (and is) a naval fortress on an island in the Gulf of Finland. Traditionally, it has served as the base of the Russian Baltic Fleet and to guard the approaches to the city of St. Petersburg (which during the first world war was re-named Petrograd, then later Leningrad, and is now St. Petersburg again) thirty-five miles away.