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The two swords on the outside represent the Miri -- Piri ( Bhagti and Shakti ) doctrine of Sikhism, revealed by Guru Nanak and put into practice by his sixth successor, Guru Hargobind indicating the integration of spiritual and temporal powers together and not treating them as two separate and distinct entities.
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`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.
* In the 2011 version of " Hunter x hunter ", Kurapika Kuruta uses a two bokken swords.
The Australian Mounted Division was armed with swords and in September, after the successful breaching of the Ottoman line on the Mediterranean coast by the British Empire infantry XXI Corps was followed by cavalry attacks by the 4th Cavalry Division, 5th Cavalry Division and Australian Mounted Divisions which almost encircled two Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills forcing their retreat.
Blazoned as: Azure, two swords in saltire points downwards between four mullets Argent, on a chief of the Second a lion passant Gules.
If a samurai was able to afford a daishō, it was often composed of whichever two swords could be conveniently acquired, sometimes by different smiths and in different styles.
The Lebanese Armed Forces Emblem consists of a Lebanon Cedar tree surrounded by two laurel leaves, positioned above the symbols of the three branches: the ground forces represented by the two swords, the navy represented by an anchor, and the air force represented by two wings.
円 /" En " meant " circle " or " perfection "; 明 /" mei " meant " light "/" clarity ", and 流 /" ryū " meant " school "; the name seems to have been derived from the idea of holding the two swords up in the light so as to form a circle.
Musashi created and perfected a two-sword kenjutsu technique called niten ' ichi ( 二天一, " two heavens as one ") or nitōichi ( 二刀一, " two swords as one ") or " Ni-Ten Ichi Ryu " ( A Kongen Buddhist Sutra refers to the two heavens as the two guardians of Buddha ).
Although he had mastership in this style of two swords, he most commonly used a katana in duels.
In the pre-Marian Roman armies the first two lines of battle, the hastati and principes, often fought with swords and pila, heavy javelins that were specifically designed to be thrown at an enemy to pierce and foul a target's shield.
It is often rumoured that the distance between the lines is that of the length of two swords although no documentary evidence exists to support this and, in fact, weapons have never been allowed in the Palace of Westminster at any time.
Daishō eventually came to mean two swords having a matched set of fittings.
A daishō could also have matching blades made by the same swordsmith, but this was in fact uncommon and not necessary for two swords to be considered to be a daishō, as it would have been more expensive for a samurai.
The Kojiki ( Record of Ancient Matters ) and the Nihon Shoki ( History of Japan ), both of which were compiled in the eighth century A. D., are but two outstanding examples in which iron swords and swordsmanship are dated back to the Japanese mythological age of the gods ( kami ).
During the Kamakura period ( 1185-1333 ) the Japanese sword smiths achieved the highest level of technical excellence and because the war between two influential families, the Minamoto and the Taira, made it possible to test and evaluate swords under the severest of conditions.
Exemplary for the innovation in Napoleon's heraldry are the two hands coming out of clouds from behind the shield holding swords, designating King Louis as Connétable de France.
I passed with my people, and Lieutenant Pearson, on the larboard gangway, to the forecastle, where I met two or three Spanish officers, prisoners to my seamen: they delivered me their swords.
The two swords awarded Jervis and Nelson were the first of their kind to be issued by the City of London.
The first Meiji era census at the end of the 19th century counted 1, 282, 000 members of the " high samurai ", allowed to ride a horse, and 492, 000 members of the " low samurai ", allowed to wear two swords but not to ride a horse, in a country of about 25 million.
Along with these two swords, Diarmuid is known to have wielded two spears, the smaller yellow spear Gáe Buide and the greater red spear Gáe Derg.
two and on
When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.
He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
Greg himself took two flights, with Todman leading the second, to patrol and look for targets of opportunities around Ormoc on the east coast of Leyte.
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.
Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
It made only a tiny bump over the two men like a tire over a piece of gravel then moved on.
The man took two short steps backward then sat down heavily on the pavement.
`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.
The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
two and outside
The first one or two roof boards ( marked `` E '' in fig. 6 ) are slipped into place across the roof beams, from outside the shelter.
The first step is a comprehensive self study made by faculty, by outside consultants, or by a combination of the two.
He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.
The two policemen take Alex outside of town and beat him up.
The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.
The two men were leaders of Alcott House, an experimental school based on Alcott's methods from the Temple School located about ten miles outside of London.
Few other disciplines outside history deal with the time before year 1, exceptions being dendrochronology, archaeology and geology, the latter two of which use ' years before the present '.
The two contingents met on opposite sides of the River Guadalquivir, just outside the capital of Córdoba on the plains of Musarah.
From 1998 to 2011, the wild-card team has been assigned to play the division winner with the best winning percentage ( outside of their own division ) in one series, and the other two division winners meet in the other series.
From 1998 to 2011, the wild-card team has been assigned to play the division winner with the best winning percentage ( outside of their own division ) in one series, and the other two division winners meet in the other series.
* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.
The two fleets met outside the Gulf of Actium ( Today Preveza city, Greece ), on the morning of 2 September 31 BC.
When an HTML document includes special characters outside the range of seven-bit ASCII two goals are worth considering: the information's integrity, and universal browser display.
It has hence been considered disloyal by the two northerner presidents Patassé and Bozizé, both of whom have equipped and run their own militias outside FACA.
Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.
In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit ; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have different meanings.
Edwards makes a similar suggestion, observing that ' the context of the two prohibition in and suggest that what is opposed is not same-sex activity outside the cult, as in the modern secular sense, but within the cult identified as Canaanite '".
The Universalists almost disappeared in Canada, outside of a small rural church in southwest Ontario, and were probably saved in the other two surviving locations by influx of Canadian Unitarians.
Each enrollee volunteered and, upon passing a physical exam and / or a period of conditioning, was required to serve a minimum six month period with the option to serve as many as four periods, or up to two years if employment outside the Corps was not possible.
Only two Dravidian languages are exclusively spoken outside India, Brahui and Dhangar, a dialect of Kurukh.
City codes ( i. e., internal prefixes ) changed from two digits to three ( or, from outside Ethiopia, one digit to two ).
Aldrin worked outside the spacecraft for 2 hours and 6 minutes, in addition to two stand-up EVAs in the spacecraft hatch for an additional 3 hours and 24 minutes.
Before he was forced abroad for political reasons, director Jules Dassin made two classic noirs that also straddled the major / independent line: Brute Force ( 1947 ) and the influential documentary-style The Naked City were developed by producer Mark Hellinger, who had an " inside / outside " contract with Universal similar to Wanger's.
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