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 bimonthly issues from Different Worlds were published.

" 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.

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

The Forty-seven Ronin were samurai of the Akō han.

Forty-seven of the 50 were released in January 1946 ; the remaining three served additional months in prison.

Forty-seven people were kiled during the 1990 flood itself.

Forty-seven people, 42 of whom were passengers, were killed, many by drowning, others by fire / smoke inhalation.

Forty-seven selected Lithuanian nobles were adopted by Polish families and granted Polish coats of arm.

Forty-seven of the fifty players were later assembled in Cleveland, Ohio, during the halftime ceremony of the 1997 All-Star Game.

Forty-seven Jewish men were imprisoned at Falstad at one point or another.

Forty-seven protesters, including many children, were arrested outside the hospice where Schiavo was located.

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

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.

Forty-seven locomotives were bought by the US Military, and four of them were exported to Australia.

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

Forty-seven states and many localities impose a tax on the income of corporations.

Forty-seven different cones and craters have been identified on the island.

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

* 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Fifty lantern slide teaching sets on the subject of `` Emergency War Surgery ( NATO ) '' were assembled and distributed to the Medical Military Services of foreign Governments associated with NATO and South-East Asia Treaty Organization.

Nine veterinary lantern slide teaching sets were developed and distributed, and lantern slide teaching sets on 21 pathology subjects were added to the loan library of the Medical Illustration Service.

Sixteen lantern slide sets were loaned to the Government of India and eight sets were forwarded to the U.S. Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua for the Educational Exchange Program.

Nine new teaching Clinico-pathologic Conference sets were prepared, which makes a total of 70 types of teaching sets for loan.

During this period, 7,827 teaching sets were distributed on loan.

Both home and auto radios were in excellent demand, with retail sales of home sets ahead of 1959 in every month of the first eleven ; ;

sales and production of home sets were about equal at 10.4 million units.

On home sets children were watching the death throes of men who were shot before the paredon, the firing wall.

So the plot creaks, the sets are decaying, the costumes are pre-historic, the orchestra was sloppy and not very well connected with what the singers were doing.

In contrast, in the Arian German kingdoms established on the wreckage of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, there were entirely separate Arian and Nicene Churches with parallel hierarchies, each serving different sets of believers.

Among his compositions written for the chapels needs were two complete sets of vespers, many graduals, offertories, and four orchestral masses.

Neither these, nor the Great Passion, were published as sets until several years later, but prints were sold individually in considerable numbers.

The turmoil that Americans were watching on their TV sets was happening live — right in his own neighborhood.

These sets were expanded in 1963 to 7 bits of coding, called the American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) as the Federal Information Processing Standard which replaced the incompatible teleprinter codes in use by different branches of the U. S. government.

All of the U. S. VHS Volumes were later issued on DVD in five two-disc sets through the Time – Life organisation.

After the Second World War, factories were retrofitted to produce Bakelite using a more efficient extrusion process which increased production and enabled the uses of Bakelite to extend into other genres: jewelry boxes, desk sets, clocks, radios, game pieces like chessmen, poker chips, billiard balls and Mah Jong sets.