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 Martello towers have survived in England, a few of which have been restored and transformed into museums ( e. g., the tower at St Osyth ), visitor centres, and galleries ( such as Jaywick Martello Tower ).

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.

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 sets were constructed, on location and in Hollywood studios, to accommodate Stevens ’ vision.

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.

The Forty-seven Ronin took his life during the Genroku era.

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

" 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.

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.

Originally, cameras, such as the Maxxum 7000, lenses and flashes used a logo with a crossed ' XX ' in ' MAXXUM '.

Night of the Living Dead is parodied in films such as Night of the Living Bread and Shaun of the Dead, and in episodes of The Simpsons (" Treehouse of Horror III ", 1992 ; " Treehouse of Horror XIII ", 2004 and " Treehouse of Horror XX ", 2009 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, South Park (" Pink Eye ", 1997 ; " Night of the Living Homeless ", 2007 ), Medium (" Bite Me ", 2009 ) and Invader Zim (" Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom " 2001 and " FBI Warning of Doom " 2002 ).

In the United States, small amounts of denatured alcohol are used in many consumer products such as toothpaste, where they are labeled as " SD alcohol XX ", where SD stands for " specially denatured " and XX is the formula used in the denaturing process that specifies the denaturants.

Zapiski o XX i XXI wieku (" In the Whirlpools of History: Jottings on the 20th and the 21st Centuries "; Cracow, Znak, 2007 ) is a compilation of interviews and lectures, reflecting Kapuściński's training as a historian and dealing with contemporary issues and their historical and cross-cultural parallels ( including such issues as globalisation, Islam, the birth of the Third World, and the dawn of the Pacific civilisation ). Kapuściński's pronouncements on current affairs were noteworthy: he thought that the causes of the 9 / 11 tragedy, for example, were too complex to lend themselves to an exhaustively thorough analysis at present, although he offered an extensive and sophisticated exposition of some of the key elements of the puzzle in " Zderzenie cywilizacji " ( The Clash of Civilisations ); he told a BBC interviewer right after the attacks: " I greatly fear that we will waste this moment.

For example, John Cena, after his initial face turn, often used a steel chain to win some of his matches, such as the one against the Big Show at WrestleMania XX.

So doctors have tended to define genetic sex dualistically, as XX or XY, and to label violations of the genetic dualism ( such as XXY and XO people ), including " mismatches " between genetics, hormones, and appearance, as " diseased.

Guevara felt that such an atrocity by the Bolivian Army and Air Force would be the tipping point in his favour in rallying the miners to his Communist cause, but eventually the miners signed with government-owned mining company, Siglo XX, an agreement which Guevara felt undermined his reason for being there.

Since then, the band have released a number of EP ´ s, singles and albums such as Stockholm Syndrome, People Like People Like People Like Us, Backyard Babies and Them XX.

The 09 prefix was introduced in September 2006 and older numbers such as 08 7X XX XX XX are replaced by 09 5X XX XX XX ( telephone service offered by Internet Provider " Free ").

Evidently it influenced greatly all Russian short story writers of late XIX early XX such as Anton Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Kuprin and many others.

At the 1890 Salon des XX in Brussels, Segantini was given an entire exhibition room, an honor awarded such greats as Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh.

This membership brought van Rysselberghe in contact with other radical artists, such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who had exhibited in Les XX in 1884.

At the second show of Les XX in 1885 Théo van Rysselberghe showed his Arabian phantasia and other images and paintings from his second Moroccan trip, such as Abraham Sicsu ( interpreter in Tanger ) ( 1884 ).

Most mammals, including humans, are genetically determined as such by the XY sex-determination system where males have an XY ( as opposed to XX ) sex chromosome.

In that time period, he helped the band record their second full-length album Desensitized ( 2004 ), which brought hit songs such as " Step Up " ( used for the motion picture The Punisher and the theme song for WWE WrestleMania XX ), and the minor hits " Love and War " and " Killin ' Me ".