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  • skills, and cultural practices such as martial arts, flower arrangement, tea ... efforts and strict discipline of martial arts. It can be contrasted ...
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  • of its long association with Chinese martial arts and particularly with ... Miu Hin and Bak Mei, who spread Shaolin martial arts through China after the ...
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  • The term nèijiā usually refers to Wudangquan or the “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, which Sun Lutang identified in the 1920s ...
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  • Jujutsu encompasses a broad range of martial arts styles and techniques ... century, however, when Japanese martial arts first became well known ...
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  • on Mount Emei had long been the home of Chinese martial arts. ... ===Martial arts=== Sixteenth and seventeenth century sources allude ...
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  • ==Martial Arts== Some martial arts can be described as eclectic in the sense that they ...
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  • and wealth on August 19, 1848. His father, Martial Caillebotte (1799-1874) ... occupied a home there until 1866, when Martial decided to build a home ...
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  • the famous Shaolin school of Chinese martial arts and is known as a Tripitaka ... the foundation of many schools of Chinese martial arts. ...
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  • Like many of his colleagues, Lee saw the martial arts in part as a ... elevated the traditional Hong Kong, martial-arts film to a new level of ...
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  • Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial arts. Bāguà zhǎng literally means "eight trigram palm," referring ...
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  • often fatal weapons and bare-knuckle Chinese martial arts tournaments were once held. The lei tai first appeared in its present form in China during ...
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  • ." Kendo combines the values of martial arts with elements of sport; ... developer of the Japan Martial Arts Foundation) changed the ...
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  • societies that educated students in arts and culture steeped in Buddhism ... The Hwarang warrior combined superb martial arts, horse-back riding, archery ...
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  • music, art, military strategy, and martial arts. The system is still used ... and alternative medicine and martial arts. Some claim the original ...
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  • cultural practices as divination, medicine, and martial arts. ... systems (including Daoist alchemy and martial arts) that also depended upon ...
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  • Set in rural Kerala, black magicians, martial arts experts, sorcerers and ... Chemban (Kalabhavan Mani), the blind martial arts expert, stands in ...
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  • changed for centuries. As with other martial arts, Zen Buddhist philosophies ... budo" ("ancient syle martial arts"). While kyudo's ...
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  • keikogi used in most other modern budo (martial) arts; simple trousers and ... who masters expansive power can, in martial arts, often overcome a person ...
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  • == Martial arts == Chinese martial arts|List of Chinese martial arts China is the original birth place of Eastern martial arts. The names ...
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  • the most ancient of all Chinese martial arts, with a reported history ... Grappling is also used to describe the skills used in mixed martial ...
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  • divination or astronomy and the calendrical arts (which entailed study of the ... and refinement of several systems of martial arts across East Asia. ...
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  • of pushing hands (tui shou, 推手) martial arts techniques. Accurate, ... and Bāguàzhǎng. Most other martial arts are classified as "wàijiā ...
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  • movements can be found in Chinese martial arts, and it is commonly performed ... During the Chinese New Year, lion dancers from martial arts school ...
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  • became the model for modern Japanese martial arts, developed from old koryu ... for the development of the classical martial arts. By the early sixteenth ...
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  • was said to have been a master of the martial arts who taught a legendary ... murdered, women cruelly abused, and dark arts were practiced. So much infamy ...
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  • sports, flower arranging, martial arts, psychotherapy, the arts ... in business, personal life, and/or in the arts. The mental and emotional ...
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  • activity, such as hunting, dance, martial arts, and so forth, since early ... military tactics and training, and martial arts. However, the real ...
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  • because of the fearsome skill in the martial arts which he displayed on ... because of his fearsome skills in the martial arts, displayed on the battlefield ...
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  • tourism, [http://www.keralatourisminfo.biz/arts.html Arts of Kerala], Keralatourisminfo ... outside elements from the folk and martial arts of Kerala which contributed ...
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  • *Fencing as a Western martial art *Other forms of fencing ... Historical fencing is a type of historical martial arts reconstruction ...
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  • stage, and offered him an education in the arts at his court. After that, ... the principles of Buddhism and the martial arts. For two hundred years ...
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  • is the same as the character in wu shu, or martial art. Sun Wu also has a Chinese ... "army procedures," or "martial arts." Around 298 B.C ...
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  • == Sumo and Other Eastern Martial Arts== superficially and in principle. Most martial arts award promotions through ...
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  • foremost of the eight major schools of martial arts in Kyoto, the "Kyo ... a son, Miyamoto Mikinosuke, and taught martial arts during his stay, specializing ...
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  • self-defense techniques, such as martial arts, stress avoiding or defusing ... Self-defense strategies form the basis of numerous martial arts, especially ...
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  • Traditional schools of Chinese martial arts, such as Shaolin Kung ... stressed frugality, loyalty, mastery of martial arts, and honor to the death. ...
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  • opera.Nancy Guy, "Governing the Arts, Governing the State: Peking ... Richard F.S. Yang, "The Performing Arts in Contemporary China" ...
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  • is one of the oldest traditional martial arts of Korea. Taekkyon was ... [https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/taekkyeon-a-traditional-korean-martial ...
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  • advanced in science, skilled in martial arts, and outstanding in the ... Both Korean arts and Buddhism flourished during the Unified Silla ...
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  • Kiribati has been known for its traditional martial arts that were kept secret within families for generations. The Kiribati martial arts have ...
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  • Mishima actively engaged in martial arts and tried to live a life ... became skillful at Kendo (the Japanese martial art of sword fighting). ...
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  • had first instituted free lectures on arts, science, and technical subjects ... fitness lessons, sports activities, and martial arts are just a few of the ...
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  • century as a synthesis of local martial arts and story-telling. ... Randai performances alternate martial arts dances, songs, and acted ...
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  • and he distinguished himself in the martial arts and as a military commander ... court affairs. Historiography and the arts increasingly became instruments ...
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  • practices for spiritual enlightenment, martial traditions, exercise and ... birth to the tradition of Chinese martial arts. The arts later spread ...
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  • and artistic fields, such as traditional arts (calligraphy, tea ceremony, etc.). ... stone rubbings, temple paintings, martial arts, hiking and examining ...
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  • and moral codes and taught humans various arts, medicine, and agriculture. ... Taekwondo, a form of the Korean martial art presents Dangun as the ...
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  • business, law, and the performing arts. NYU counts 31 Nobel Prize ... hockey, baseball, softball, equestrian, martial arts, ultimate frisbee, and ...
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  • Judges of the Marshalsea (in the courts-martial). The other Judge was William ... Cardinal Pole; he was created a Master of Arts of that university on the ...
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  • noted that mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and martial arts seem to improve a person's capacity for flow. Among other benefits, all of these activities ...
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  • In October 1790, Bligh was honorably acquitted at the court-martial ... to collect evidence for the upcoming court-martial of Major George Johnston ...
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  • Chinese medicine and Chinese martial arts. Falun Gong teaches that in what they call "high-level cultivation practice," and the practice ...
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  • a failure, and that he would face court-martial upon his return to the United ... City College after graduating from Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles ...
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  • place in literature, dance and the fine arts. Ikebana (flower arrangement ... leaves in a boy's bath to give him a martial spirit. Originally May 5th ...
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  • Awards as well as the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors. ... In 1995, Dee and Davis were awarded the National Medal of Arts.[https://www ...
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  • realist, and instructed the young Xiang Yu in martial arts. The rebellious young Xiang Yu rejected this, believing that martial arts were not worth his ...
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  • Indonesian forces led to the imposition of martial law. A Cessation of Hostilities ... Arts and culture are important in Acehnese society. Each village regularly ...
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  • and the Chinese, as well as some Japanese martial arts. Most specifically, the Chinese martial art T'ai Chi Ch'uan is based on the Daoist ...
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  • warrior relief inwang (kumgang-yoksa) in martial arts poses confront him. On the western end of the vestibule, walls are Four Heavenly Kings, sach-onwang ...
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  • in cultural activities from culinary arts, carpentry, and technological ... techniques such as painting, music, martial arts, tea ceremony, and dancing ...
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  • to find their way home, and even the martial arts kung fu includes a style mimicking the movements of mantids (Grzimek et al. 2004). ...
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  • into Capoeira groups, a Brazilian form of martial arts. There are specific rites of passage for the various branches of the Armed forces. For example ...
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  • philosophy, military tactics and martial arts from his father. After his father's death in 964, he left his household and traveled around ...
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  • and Elizabeth Guo. (2005). Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals: A Historical ... *Kennedy, Brian, and Elizabeth Guo. 2005. Chinese Martial Arts Training ...
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  • Chinese alchemy, astrology, cuisine, several Chinese martial arts, Chinese traditional medicine, fengshui, and many styles of qigong breath training ...
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  • rugby union, handball, tennis, boxing, and martial arts. Soccer is the most popular sport in Burkina Faso, played both professionally, and informally ...
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  • ===Martial arts=== Tamil in Tamil Nadu and Kerala partice a variety of martial arts including ...
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  • a film unit. He narrowly avoided a court martial when his novel, The Adventures ... grounds that commerce should not judge the arts, but accepted the New York ...
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  • a fairly wealthy family, and grew up studying martial arts and training to serve the emperor. During his teens, he became a private guard for the emperor ...
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  • He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the age of 19 from Columbia ... Broadway play called The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial The novel grew ...
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  • the idea of harmony is applied to health, arts, martial arts, and social life. The concept of dual characteristics of Yang and Yin was often tied ...
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  • regime. To survive the privation and martial law of this period, Balanchine ... Ballets 1933, Lincoln Kirstein, an American arts patron with a dream of establishing ...
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  • or red beans. First adopted into Japanese martial arts by Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo, in 1884, the practice has become an important ritual ...
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  • sisters grew up in a house well-versed in the martial arts. They also witnessed the cruel treatment of the Viets by their Chinese overlords. The Trưng ...
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  • of this virtue to people who practice martial arts. ===Honor in secular terms=== Honor has been defined as the evaluation of a person’s trustworthiness ...
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  • , "mercurial" (Mercury), "martial" (Mars), "jovial ... ===The Seven Liberal Arts and Western Astrology=== In medieval Europe ...
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  • With their intense training in the martial arts, they proved to be effective ... "Bun Bu Ryo Do" ("literary arts, military arts, both ways ...
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  • Except for modern and contemporary visual arts, Lao artistic traditions ... of lam tangwai), and the male martial arts dance fon dab. Well-known ...
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  • ferocious military repression, including martial law, and imprisonment of ... most other western European countries' arts and sciences were much less ...
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  • but also for anyone interested in the noble arts." The first Italian edition ... Apart from his treatises on the arts, Alberti also wrote: Philodoxus ...
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  • he was an augur and seer; practiced magical arts, especially astrology; founded ... given their mutual prowesses in the performing arts. Pindar, Asklepiades ...
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  • the development of the religion and its arts in China. Chán Buddhism ... related to combat techniques (martial arts) (See Bushido). ...
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  • a culturally rich period in China for the arts, philosophy, and social life ... Popular sports include martial arts, table tennis, badminton, and ...
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  • and had traditionally used it to practice martial arts. After the local authorities seized the temple and gave it to the Catholics, villagers attacked ...
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  • linked with the practice of the Chinese martial arts or Kung fu, and monks are frequently important characters in martial arts films. This association ...
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  • and two hours later Bhumibol imposed the martial law throughout the Kingdom ... its loyalty to the Bhumibol. Declaring martial law, the military repealed ...
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  • time. He later obtained a formal court-martial, which exonerated him. ... museums, such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Today, noted silversmiths ...
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  • others, is also found in the graphic and performing arts. ... *Martin, Martial, "Préface" in Satyre Menippee de la Vertu ...
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  • versus Tiger." In Chinese martial arts, "Dragon style" is used to describe styles of fighting based more on understanding movement ...
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  • springs of running water, where Yeon practiced martial arts every day. Later, Mongol invaders completely blocked its flow. At fifteen, Yeon tried to ...
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  • through a prize offered by the Royal Society of Arts. In June 1787 ... decide to return to Earth to face a court martial for having stolen the Enterprise ...
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  • world, whose chief delight consisted in martial exercises, with a great ... In Paris, Ignatius finally achieved a coveted Master of Arts at the ...
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  • important period in the development of fine arts in Southern India, especially ... his military leadership, interest in fine arts and religious tolerance. Literature ...
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  • became one of the leading centers of the arts and sciences in Europe. He ... although his greatest contribution to arts lies in painting, sculpture ...
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  • or by practitioners of traditional arts are far less expensive. Enterprising ... also by women, and also worn in certain martial arts such as aikido. A hakama ...
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  • Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree sobresaliente. He enrolled ... anthropology, sociology, dramatics, martial arts, fencing, and pistol shooting ...
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  • Several Greek and Roman sources including Juvenal and Martial describe ... its culture. (Other genres of performing arts were not affected.) The ban ...
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  • composite army made up of the frontier martial tribes of the Shakas, Kambojas ... Allworth Press and the School of Visual Arts. ISBN 1581152035. ...
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  • arrived in Baku on November 17, and martial law was imposed. ... outside. The Carpet and Applied Arts Museum exhibits the carpets ...
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