Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

Forty-seven noble leaders of the insurrection were tried, and twenty-seven were executed on what is called " the Day of Blood " by Protestants at Prague's Old Town Square.

There is also a comparison of the characters to the Forty-seven ronin.

" The answer obviously is: then the Forty-seven Ronin would have lost their only chance at avenging their master.

This is why Yamamoto and others claim that the tale of the Forty-seven Ronin is a good story of revenge — but by no means a story of bushido.

The Forty-seven Ronin are one of the most popular themes in woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e ; the list of artists who have done prints portraying either the original events, or scenes from the play, or the actors, is a Who's Who of woodblock artists.

* Lucia St. Clair Robson's historical fiction novel The Tokaido Road is adapted from the tale of the Forty-seven Ronin.

Forty-seven is a highly cototient number.

Forty-seven is a strictly non-palindromic number.

Forty-seven years later, Jack Deebs, a cartoonist, is detained after murdering a man he found in bed with his wife.

About 150 – 160 meters north of the Fujimi-yagura is the former site of the Matsu no Ōrōka corridor, scene of dramatic events in 1701 that led to the Forty-seven Ronin incident.

He is known as the leader of the Forty-seven Ronin in their 1702 vendetta and thus the hero of the Chūshingura.

Besides his work for television, he is best known for his screenplays for Hotaru ( 2001 ) and Shijushichinin no shikaku, Kon Ichikawa's 1994 version of the Forty-seven Ronin story.

" The review points out that the amount of historical detail given in the film is likely to alienate audiences who are not familiar with the story of the Forty-seven Ronin.

The story, a fictionalized account of true events, is set in the time of the Forty-seven Ronin, with a Robin Hood-like fictional character.

The Asano name is perhaps most well known as a result of the story of the Forty-seven Ronin, whose lord was Asano Naganori, the head of a branch of the family enfeoffed at Ako ( Harima Province, 53, 000 koku ).

Forty-seven states assign or provide vehicles for employees on state business.

" Forty-seven percent of the respondents identified themselves as being Clinton supporters.

Forty-seven bimonthly issues from Different Worlds were published.

* 1703 – In Edo ( now Tokyo ), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku ( ritual suicide ) as recompense for avenging their master's death.

* 1703 – The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.

* 1702: Forty-seven Ronin attack Kira Yoshinaka and then commit seppuku in Japan.

* January 30 ( December 14 of previous year in the Chinese calendar ) – In Japan, the revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin occurs, assassinating Daimyo Kira Yoshinaka, the enemy of their former lord Asano Naganori, at his own mansion as a vengeance.

" Forty-seven complete or partial skulls were discovered in just that area during the decade 2000 – 2010.

Forty-seven people, of which 42 were passengers, were killed, many by drowning, others by fire.

The revenge of the, also known as the Forty-seven Samurai, the Akō vendetta, or the took place in Japan at the start of the 18th century.

Mitford invited his readers to construe his story of the Forty-seven Ronin as historically accurate ; and while his version of the tale has long been considered a standard work, some of its precise details are now questioned.

# ... a paper which the Forty-seven Rǒnin laid upon the tomb of their master, together with the head of Kira Kôtsuké no Suké.

Two of the Forty-seven Ronin: Horibe Yahei and his adopted son, Horibe Yasubei.

The tragedy of the Forty-seven Ronin has been one of the most popular themes in Japanese art, and has lately even begun to make its way into Western art.

Many Japanese television shows, including single programs, short series, single seasons, and even year-long series such as Daichūshingura and the more recent NHK Taiga drama Genroku Ryōran, recount the events of the Forty-seven Ronin.

Forty-seven such XX calls were issued during the revolt, causing heavy losses to the rebels.

As a young man he was said to be an avid reader, and especially liked the stories of the Forty-seven Ronin and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

As a result of his leadership in the Forty-seven Ronin affair, Oishi went down in history as the most famous of all karō.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

* Demonstratio evangelica ( Proof of the Gospel ) is closely connected to the Praeparatio and comprised originally twenty books of which ten have been completely preserved as well as a fragment of the fifteenth.

On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of matzah to the LORD.

The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, " Speak to the children of Yisra ' el, and say, ' On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths for seven days to the LORD.

Hamburg (;, local pronunciation ; Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg ), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany, the fifteenth largest German state, and the sixth largest city in the European Union.

" A former term for " incunable " is " fifteener ," referring to the fifteenth century.

Its fifteenth session was held in Kingston 25 May-5 June 2009 and its sixteenth session is scheduled for 26 April to 7 May 2010.

India ’ s position in 2009 is third and fifteenth respectively as the trade turnover between the two countries stood at US $ 983 million in 2009 i. e. India ’ s exports to Jordan in 2009 stood at US $ 297 million while imports were valued at US $ 686 million.

* The fifteenth law is that all men that mediate peace be allowed safe conduct.

O ( named o, plural oes ) is the fifteenth letter and a vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord ; seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.

Little is known about the history of Togo before the late fifteenth century, when Portuguese explorers arrived, although there are signs of Ewe settlement for several centuries before their arrival.

* June 15 – Jamestown: The triangular fort is completed and armed: " The fifteenth of June we had built and finished our Fort, which was triangle wise, having three Bulwarkes, at every corner, like a halfe Moone, and foure or five pieces of Artillerie mounted in them.

Peter Furhring, a specialist in the history of ornament, says that ( also in a French context ): The ornament known as moresque in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ( but now more commonly called arabesque ) is characterized by bifurcated scrolls composed of branches forming interlaced foliage patterns.

If, as seems likely, he died before his fifteenth birthday, he is the shortest-lived monarch in English history ( his great-nephew Edward VI died in his sixteenth year ).

This is the first instance where one may observe a direct divergence from the theological virtues and concerns that were previously exerted by Justice in the morality plays of the fifteenth century.

The United States Secretary of Energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession.

" A second speculation is that it comes from the fifteenth century songs on satire by Olivier Basselin, " Vaux de Vire.

It is not until the fifteenth century that there are evidence in reliable documentary form to prove that the bushi practiced swordsmanship in a systematic manner.

He is succeeded by his son Yazdegerd II who becomes the fifteenth Sassanid king of the Persian Empire.

At Medinet Habu the corselet appears similar to that worn by the Philistines and is similar, though not identical, to that found in tomb 12 at Dendra where Mycenaean IIB-IIIA pottery dates it to the second half of the fifteenth century BCE.

* The 9th track on Iron Maiden's fifteenth studio album, The Final Frontier, is entitled " The Man Who Would Be King ".

Below this, separating the choir from the crossing and nave is the striking fifteenth century choir screen.

The tall Great East Window, created by John Thornton in the early fifteenth century, is the largest example of medieval stained glass in the world.

Each edging is one fifteenth as wide as the flag.