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

Forty-seven percent of millionaires are business owners.

Forty-seven percent of those included in the book were born in England, 27 % in Australia, 12 % Scotland, 8 % Ireland, 1 % Wales and the last 5 % were from the rest of the world which included 12 from the United States, 9 from Germany, and 6 from New Zealand.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

There he met Ernest Satow and wrote Tales of Old Japan ( 1871 )-a book credited with making such classical Japanese tales as the " Forty-seven Ronin " first known to a wide Western public.

Dr. and Mrs. Whitman were killed along with eleven others ; Forty-seven other mission residents were taken hostage.

" 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.

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

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

Here, the wife of Onodera Junai, one of the Forty-seven Ronin, prepares for her suicide ; note the legs tied together, a female feature of seppuku to ensure a " decent " posture in death

Some viewed him as a man of immediate action due to some of his quotes, and in the Hagakure he criticized the carefully planned Akō vendetta of the Forty-seven Ronin ( a major event in his lifetime ) for its delayed response.

Forty-seven teams ultimately entered to compete for the fifteen remaining places in the finals, alongside hosts England.

The wife of Onodera Junai, one of the Forty-seven Ronin, prepares for her suicide.

Forty-seven bimonthly issues from Different Worlds were published.

* 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.

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 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.

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

" 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 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.

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 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.

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

In addition, demographic inquiries, supposedly involving field investigations, were conducted in selected minor divisions ( circonscriptions ) containing about 3 percent of the total population.

About 11 percent of the total population was covered in the new investigation, as compared with about 3 percent in the previous inquiries.

Romansh, spoken by two percent of the population in southeast Switzerland, is an ancient Rheato-Romanic language derived from Latin, remnants of ancient Celtic languages and perhaps Etruscan.

Received Pronunciation ( RP ) refers to a way of pronouncing Standard English that is actually used by about two percent of the UK population.

With about 6 million native speakers in South Africa, or 13. 3 percent of the population, it is the third most spoken mother tongue in the country.

Minorities in the U. S. spend a combined $ 142 billion on food and by 2010, America's ethnic population is expected to grow by 40 percent.

The 2000 census population of Southeast was 72, 954 inhabitants, about 42 percent of whom were concentrated in the city of Juneau.

Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30 – 60 percent of Europe's population.

From historical descriptions, as much as 40 percent of the population of Constantinople died from the plague.

It was arguably the worst in European history, reducing the population by perhaps more than 10 percent.

The Bambara language is the language of people of the Bambara ethnic group, numbering about 4, 000, 000 people, but serves also as a lingua franca in Mali ( it is estimated that about 80 percent of the population speak it as a first or second language ).

Upper Houses are divided between double rooms and singles, with about sixty percent of the population being in doubles.

74 percent of the population in the Central African Republic works in the agriculture industry, so Central African Republic's economy is dominated by the cultivation and sale of foodcrops such as yams, cassava, peanuts, maize, sorghum, millet, sesame, and plantains.

With less than 1 percent of the total population holding a bank account, access to financial services is extremely limited in the CAR.

Microfinance accounts only for 1 percent of the total credit facilities, serving 0. 5 percent of the population.

The percent of total income earned by the richest 20 % of the Chilean population in 2000 was 61. 0 % of GDP, while the percent of total income earned by the poorest 20 % of the Chilean population was 3. 3 % of GDP.

Introduction of pigs by guano miners at the beginning of the 20th century reduced the crab population on the island, which in turn allowed grassland to gradually cover about 80 percent of the land surface ( Sachet, 1962 ).

It had an estimated total of 900, 000 Internet subscribers by the end of 2005, a figure that equated to 4, 739, 000 Internet users, or 11. 5 percent of the 2005 population ( 10. 9 per 100 inhabitants ).

In 1989, 46. 4 percent of the population was under fifteen years of age, an above-average proportion even for sub-Saharan Africa.