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From the Battle of the Bridge chapter of Heike monoatari, featuring a worker-monk: "You must have heard of me long ago. See me now with your own eyes! Everyone at Miidera [Onjoji] knows me! I am the worker-monk Jomyo Meishu [Jomyo Myoshu] from Tsutsui, a warrior worth a thousand men. If any here consider themselves my equals, let them come forward, I'll meet them!" He let fly a fast and furious barrage from this twenty-four-arrow quiver, which killed twelve men instantly and wounded elven others. Then, with one arrow left, he sent the bow clattering away, untied and discarded the quiver, cast off his fur boots, and ran nimbly along a bridge beam in his bare feet. Others had feared to attempt the crossing: Jomyo acted as though it were Ichijo or Nijo Avenue. He mowed down five enemies with his spear and was engaging a sixth when the blade snapped in the middle. He abandoned the weapon and fought with his sword. Hard-pressed by the enemy host, he slashed in every direction, using the zigzag, interlacing, crosswise, dragon-fly reverse, and waterwheel maneuvers. After cutting down eight men on the spot, he struck the helmet top of a ninth so hard that the blade snapped on the hilt rivet, slipped loose, and splashed into the river. Then he fought desperately with a dirk as his sole resource.
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1820Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered Antarctica. 1883Standard time began in the United States. 1886Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States (1881–1885), died in New York at 56. 1928Mickey Mouse made his debut in Steamboat Willie. 1976Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship. 1978Jim Jones, a U.S. pastor, led 914 of his followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Cult members who refused to swallow the drink were shot. 2003The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the right to same sex marriage was guaranteed by the state constitution. 2004The UN Security Council held a two-day session in Nairobi. This was the first time it had convened outside of New York headquarters.
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1558Queen Elizabeth I of England ascended to the throne upon the death of her half-sister Queen Mary. 1800Congress met in Washington, DC, for the first time. 1869The Suez Canal opened in Egypt. 1917Sculptor Auguste Rodin died in Meudon, France. 1968Night of the "Heidi bowl:" NBC switched from football to movie of Heidi. In the missing 42 seconds, the lagging Raiders scored two touchdowns, defeating the Jets. 1973President Nixon said "I am not a crook." 1989The beginning of the "Velvet Revolution," which led to the downfall of communism in Czechoslovakia. 2003Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California.
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1864General Sherman and his troops began their "March to the sea" during the Civil War. 1907Oklahoma became the 46th state. 1933The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations. 1973President Nixon signed the bill authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. 2004President George W. Bush nominated Condoleezza Rice to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state.
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1763Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began surveying the Mason-Dixon line. 1777The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the U.S. Constitution. 1806Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak. 1939The cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial was laid by President Roosevelt. 1969About 250,000 protesters against the Vietnam War, the largest war protest ever, converged peacefully on Washington, DC. 2002Hu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin as China's Communist Party leader.
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Kindly put your contemporary monsters, pics, stats, etc here. Stat this guy for us, and tell us his story, please. Is he from Utah?
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1775 U.S. forces, under the command of Gen. Richard Montgomery, captured Montreal during the American Revolution. 1927 The world's first long, mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, opened between New York and New Jersey. 1940 Walt Disney's Fantasia debuted. 1942 The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18. 1946 Vincent Schaefer produced artificial snow from a natural cloud for the first time at Mount Greylock in Massachusetts. 1956 The Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on buses. 1982 The Vietnam War Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated in Washington, DC. 2001 The Taliban abandoned Afghanistan's capital of Kabul when the Northern Alliance entered the city.
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1620The Mayflower Compact was signed by Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower. It would provide the basis for all governments of the American colonies. 1831Former slave Nat Turner was executed. 1889Washington became the 42nd state. 1918The Allies and Germany signed an armistice ending World War I. 1921The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was dedicated in Arlington National Cemetery. 1965Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain. 1992The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests. 2004Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, died in Paris. Mahmoud Abbas was elected to take his place.
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1871Journalist and explorer Henry Stanley found the missing David Livingstone in Central Africa and made his famous comment, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 1928Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan. 1951The first long distance telephone call without operator assistance took place. 1969Sesame Street premiered on PBS TV. 1970The Great Wall of China opened to the world for tourism. 1982The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened in Washington, DC.
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Sounds legit.
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1888 Jack the Ripper killed his last victim, Mary Jane Kelly. 1938Nazis burned and looted temples and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night—referring to broken glass on streets). 1953Author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39. 1965A switch at a station near Niagara Falls failed. The Northeast and parts of Canada went dark for more than 13 hours. 1970Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79. 1989Borders between East and West Germany were opened and the Berlin Wall began to be dismantled the next day. 2016 For the first time, the U.S. President Elect has neither government nor military experience.
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"9-1-1, where is the emergency?" Caller, "I don't like any of the candidates." Dispatch, "Sorry, you have the wrong number, bye."
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1889 Montana became the 41st state. 1892Former president Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison and became the only president to win nonconsecutive terms in the White House. 1923Adolf Hitler attempted, and failed, to seize control of the German government in the Beer Hall Putsch. 1960John F. Kennedy defeated Richard M. Nixon for the presidency of the United States. 1966Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. 1994After a 40-year Democrat domination, the Republican Party gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a Senate majority. 2016 Donald Trump wins more than 200 votes from the Electoral College, Hillary Clinton wins more than 300. Or, you know, my guess is wrong.
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1874The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine. 1916Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress. 1917Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution. 1944President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey. 1962Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78. 1967Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city. 1989L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia. He became the nation's first elected black governor. 2000The U.S. went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The outcome wouldn't be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
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The Unofficial Populating The Golden Age Thread
GhostDancer replied to steriaca's topic in Champions
Here's a newly published superhero resource of never-before-reprinted Golden Age madness https://www.amazon.com/Super-Weird-Heroes-Outrageous-Real/dp/1631407457 that would make a good gift! -
1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. 1861 Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America. 1869 The first intercollegiate soccer game took place (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4). 1893 Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53. 1913 Mohandas Gandhi led a march of miners in South Africa. He was arrested three times in the first four days of the march.
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Here's the exception that proves the rule, circa 1944, the first Asian superhero http://comicvine.gamespot.com/green-turtle/4005-61241/
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Should a sohei be prohibited from starting the campaign with a shield?
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Ha, I posted before I viewed, and our line is soooo similar!
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1839 The first Opium War between China and Britain broke out. 1903 Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia. 1952 Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas. 1957 The Soviet Union sent the first animal, a dog named Laika, into space aboard the Sputnik II. Laika died in orbit. 1986 A Lebanese magazine broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran, leading to the Iran-Contra affair. 1992 Carol Moseley-Braun became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate. 2004 Hamid Karzai was declared the winner in Afghanistan's first presidential election. 2016 The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time in 108 years. The rain in Cleveland is made of tears.
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"I can see the truth in the dragon's riddles" Fubuko was a kensai sohei, an master of dual wield weaponries, a jewel of the Spider Clan and member of the Order of the Spider. Read more about her on L5Rwikia.com
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Japanese history is replete with monks and priests who were very skilled martial artists, and there was this interesting "revolving door" between the ranks of nobility (and later the ranks of bushi) and ordained life. The Katori Shinto Ryu, for example, is one of the oldest existing ryu, still centered at Katori Shrine in Ibaragi prefecture, practices sword, spear, naginata, shuriken, shinobi (!), siegecraft, and some other stuff. The Hozoin temple near Nara was another famous center of martial study in medieval Japan; it is said that Musashi went there to challenge / get a lesson from the abbot Innei who had developed a wicked spear style. [Most] sohei were more like goons or mooks that lived in the temple and did dirty work, than warriors. They lifted heavy things, cleaned crap, dealt with dead animal carcasses, that sort of thing. There was a period of time when the temples and shrines used strongarm tactics to maintain political leverage and prevent taxes from being levied on their lands - they would send sohei into town to be a nuisance, in some cases to get a little out of control and cause a situation, and in a few really entertaining cases they would cart a sacred artifact or statue down the mountain and just leave it in the streets until the townspeople were so freaked out by this god sitting around possibly getting angry that they would entreat the nobles to relent to the temple's demands. Which usually worked! In short, they were like the brownshirts of ancient Japan. -unknown
