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Duels in this form were chiefly practised in Early Modern Europe, with precedents in the medieval code of chivalry, and continued into the modern period ( 19th to early 20th centuries ) especially among military officers.
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Duels were sometimes held using guns.
Duels were banned in neighboring Washington, D. C., but legal in Maryland, and Dueling Creek was the site for more than 50 duels between 1808 and 1868.
Duels were fought not so much to kill the opponent as to gain " satisfaction ," that is, to restore one's honour by demonstrating a willingness to risk one's life for it, and as such the tradition of duelling was originally reserved for the male members of nobility ; however, in the modern era it extended to those of the upper classes generally.
Two expansion packs were published, Spells of the Ancients and Duels of the Planeswalkers.
Duels and Europe
Following Duels successful TV airing, Universal released Duel overseas in 1972, especially in Europe.
Duels toured with Graham Coxon, opening the nights for the former Blur guitarist, The Rakes and across Europe with The Kooks and The Zutons.
Duels and with
The Shadowrun role-playing game has spawned Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game, four video games, an action figure game ( Shadowrun Duels ), two magazines, an art book and more than 50 novels, starting with the Secrets of Power series which introduces some of the original characters of Shadowrun and gives a good introduction to this fictional universe.
Duels could be fought with swords, the rapier and later the smallsword, or between cavalry officers with
In the " Duels Of The Mind " series which aired on the UK ITV network, Keene, along with South African author and civil rights campaigner Donald Woods, discussed and analysed what Keene regards as the twelve best chess games ever played.
223 To fight .. in Duels, with a Rapier called a Tucke, onely for the thrust.
* ' Mr. Cogito's Duels: A Conversation with Anna Poppek and Andrzej Gelberg ' The Sarmatian Review, Volume XV, Number 2, April 1995 text
D-Wheels are basically motorcycles with Duel equipment used in Riding Duels.
In 2005, Lepage returned to R & J, and started the season off with a third-place finish in the Gatorade Duels and a ninth-place finish at the Daytona 500.
Throughout the series, Chumley participates in only two Duels: the first with his father, and the second with Vellian Crowler.
The team rebounded to qualify 15th via the Gatorade Duels, but finished 30th, leaving Daytona with negative driver and owner points ( the team's finish in the Daytona 500 earned them 73 points, but the 100 point penalty they received from NASCAR left them last in the standings at − 27 points ).
Duels and continued
Duels continued to be fought at the site, and the marble was slowly vandalized and removed for souvenirs, leaving nothing remaining by 1820.
Duels and early
As of early 2009, Duels are writing and rehearsing their third full-length album.
Duels and among
* Exempt teams ( excluding the pole and " outside pole " winners ) are split among the two Duels based on their owner points position from the previous season.
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The Japanese music group ALI Project created the song " Gesshoku Grand Guignol " as the opening for the Bee-Train anime Avenger, while British rock band Duels also named an instrumental track after the theater.
WizKids itself produced an unsuccessful collectible action figure game based on the property, called Shadowrun Duels.
* Kenneth S. Greenberg, Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Pro-Slavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South ( 1996 ).
On June 16, 2012 a historic world premiere of " Mixed Team ( couples ) ski jumping event for men and women " ( also called Battles of Genders or Duels of Genders ) was held at Mostec in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Duels, either deadly or survivable, may easily occur when someone feels that they have been wronged or insulted, a custom that keeps order and politeness.
Duels are permitted ; but custom requires that anyone who kills another must pay debts and look after the deceased's family.
He also appears in Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Jedi Alliance, Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles and Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels as a playable character.
Duels traditionally took place at dawn, when the poor light would make the participants less likely to be seen, and to force an interval for reconsideration or sobering-up.
* Duels and Duelling ( Stephen Banks ) 2012.
* Marek Żukow-Karczewski, Pojedynki w dawnej Polsce ( Duels in the old Poland ), " Przekrój " ( 1987 ) 2204.
" Shortly, though, Duels problems won out and Selznick relegated Notorious to his mental back burner.
Stewart won the 1st duel of the Gatorade Duels at Daytona, when his new driver Danica Patrick hit the wall hard on the backstretch on the final lap, which brought out the caution.
Duels in the series is typically not time-based except Suikoden V wherein choosing a command is timed for 3 seconds.
Duels are usually accompanied by dialogue exchange between the player and the enemy.
The band has also formed quite a following on their web forums, which is host to tour announcements, new video game covers from other remixers, and the Dwelling of Duels video game music competition.
Once the Duels are completed, the starting grid for the Daytona 500 would then be set.
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Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.
These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.
The first eight of these eighteen statements, which received at least one-half of the votes, were duplicated to form an analysis checklist for the particular manager, and when this particular manager roleplayed in other situations, the members checked any items that appeared.
The legislative mills have been grinding ever since, and when its cumbersome processes were no longer adequate to the task, a limited legislative authority was delegated in one form or another, to the executive.
The cover letter, questionnaire, and follow-up postcard were then revised into final form ( see Appendixes A, B, and C ).
The affixed elements of collage were extruded, as it were, and cut off from the literal pictorial surface to form a bas-relief.
To be sure of matching color as well as form, pieces of cartoon were traced on the roughcast, and large samples painted in fresco, then left two months to dry out to their final key.
But dully glinting on the dark form were the buttons and badge of a policeman.
The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.
The form of Christianity to which they were exposed was for some the Protestantism of the older stock, for others the Protestantism of the nineteenth-century immigration ; ;
The works that have survived are in treatise form and were not, for the most part, intended for widespread publication, as they are generally thought to be lecture aids for his students.
These free-standing statues were usually marble, but also the form rendered in limestone, bronze, ivory and terracotta.
By comparing the form of several yupanas, researchers found that calculations were based using the Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 and powers of 10, 20 and 40 as place values for the different fields in the instrument.
Sporting events were a tried and tested form of publicity stunt and circulation booster.
Specific constructions had many similarities, but were generally unique in form due to the individual topography of different alcoves along the canyon walls.
Bradman ( 244 ) and Ponsford ( 266 ) were in record-breaking form with a partnership of 451 for the second wicket.
But before that, many Britons were more scrupulous at maintaining the French form.
Like with Tyrannosaurus, the maxillary ( cheek ) teeth of Albertosaurus were adapted in general form to resist lateral forces exerted by a struggling prey.
Most of the pilings that form the foundation of Venice were made from alder trees.
As usual, Alcott's methods were controversial ; a former student later referred to him as " the most eccentric man who ever took on himself to train and form the youthful mind.
Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.
Farmers were recruited into regiments for this work from August to October — a period of food shortage — under the control of city temple authorities, thus acting as a form of unemployment relief.
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