The samurai were also proficient in hand-to-hand combathand-to-hand combatHand-to-hand combat (sometimes abbreviated as HTH or H2H) is a physical confrontation between two or more persons at short range (grappling distance, or within the physical reach of a handheld weapon) that does not involve the use of weapons.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki ›…
About the Haiku and Life of the Japanese Samurai Warrior : Bamboo Poems; by Pearldiver gives a glimpse of another side of the state of being a Samurai. In feudal Japan, the country was effectively ruled by warlords (Diamyo) who independently served the Emperor, yet collectively served the emperor’s choice…
Fans would love for the fictional Monica and Quincy to be an item in real life but that’s not the case for Lathan and Epps. They have, however, remained friendly over the years and reunited to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the film in 2015 during the LA Film Festival.…
A recent scientific research cruise, led by the University of Sydney, in part of the South Pacific Ocean between Australia and New Caledonia has reported that “Sandy Island”, shown on many scientific maps, does not exist. The strange history of a ‘phantom’ island off Australia that disappeared in 2012. The…
Santa Anna’s prosthetic leg was captured as a battlefield trophy. During the 1847 Battle of Cerro Gordo in the Mexican-American WarMexican-American WarThe Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. The war had begun almost two years earlier, in…
She may have no genetic relationship to the boundary-busting 19th-century French Jewish actress Sarah Bernhardt, but the singer, actor and comedian Sandra Bernhard is every inch as brazen and sexually uninhibited as her putative namesake. Sarah Bernhardt [born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; October 22, 1844—March 21, 1923] was a French stage and…
Sargent was similarly inspired to do a portrait of his artist friend Paul César Helleu, also painting outdoors with his wife by his side. A photograph very similar to the painting suggests that Sargent occasionally used photography as an aid to composition. Portrait painting, on the other hand, was the…
On July 19, 1948, Paige followed former Kansas City Monarchs teammate Jackie Robinson into the major leagues when he signed with Bill Veeck’s Cleveland Indians, becoming the American League’s oldest rookie at age forty-two. Leroy Robert ” Satchel ” Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American…
“I did see …” is past tense emphatic ( The speaker emphasizes on the fact of his having seen the incident/object in the past.) As others here have emphasised, “I did see” merely adds a confirmatory tone. I saw also is a positive statement but “did see” adds that little…
She is still alive, and rests on shore waiting for her wounds to heal. After what seems to be a day or two, Saya rips off part of her school uniform skirt and bandages her still bleeding left eye. The dog remarks that, before Saya was captured, she made a…