But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

`` This one is a tender chicken, oui??

but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

* 1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system ( Shinōkōshō ) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

* 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

* 1945 – An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantarō Suzuki.

Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League ; Cuba's West League and East League.

Japan's Seventeen-article constitution written in 604, reportedly by Prince Shōtoku, is an early example of a constitution in Asian political history.

He is considered Japan's earliest cyborg superhero, before even Kamen Rider ( the same year, Shotaro Ishinomori created Cyborg 009 ), and was the inspiration for RoboCop.

* 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved " 300 million yen robbery ", is carried out in Tokyo.

Hachijō-daiko is a unique style of Japanese drumming originating on Japan's Hachijo Island ( Hachijō-jima ), located in the Pacific some 287 kilometers south of Tokyo.

In the Japanese language, the word tennō is restricted to Japan's own monarch ; kōtei ( 皇帝 ) is used for foreign emperors.

It is assumed that this was Japan's first large-scale engineering works undertaking.

So Japan's currency code is JPY — JP for Japan and Y for yen.

In total, as of 2006, Japan's territory is, of which is land and water.

Japan's highest mountain is Mt.

About 73 percent of Japan's area is mountainous, and scattered plains and intermontane basins ( in which the population is concentrated ) cover only about 25 percent.

According to U. N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, the approved expansion is equal to about 82 % of Japan's total land area.

As of the most recent census ( October 2010 ), Japan's population is 128, 057, 352 ; for March 2012 the estimated population is 127, 650, 000 making it the world's tenth most populated country.

In a strong move, on 8 August 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for a snap election to the lower house, as threatened, after LDP stalwarts and opposition DPJ parliamentarians defeated his proposal for a large-scale reform and privatisation of Japan Post, which besides being Japan's state-owned postal monopoly is arguably the world's largest financial institution, with nearly 331 trillion yen of assets.

In South Asia, Japan's role is mainly that of an aid donor.

According to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's arc of freedom theory, it is in Japan's interests to develop closer ties with India, world's most populous democracy, while its relations with China remain chilly.

The United States is Japan's closest ally, and Japan relies on the U. S. for its national security to a high degree.

Canada has the tenth largest economy in the world ( measured in US dollars at market exchange rates ), is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and Group of Eight ( G8 ).

A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.

Haryana is one of the wealthiest states of India and has the third highest per capita income in the country at Rs.

A New York Times article reveals that the U. S. is the world's wealthiest nation, but " ranks twenty-ninth in life expectancy, right behind Jordan and Bosnia.

Nevertheless, the Omani Arab legacy in East Africa is currently found through their numerous descendants found along the coast that can directly trace ancestry to Oman and are typically the wealthiest and most politically influential members of the Kenyan coastal community.

Manchester United is one of the wealthiest and most widely supported football teams in the world.

It is also the third wealthiest U. S. state by 2011 median household income.

As one of the wealthiest and more populous provinces of the Roman Empire, it is estimated that the population of Roman Syria in the early Roman Empire was only exceeded in the mid-20th century, when it may have been as high as 7-8 million or more, if Palestine and Jordan are included, but not including the eastern section of modern day Syria beyond the Euphrates.

The upper class is generally contained within the wealthiest 1 or 2 percent of the population.

Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest and most developed nations in the Caribbean and is listed in the top 66 High Income countries in the world.

Using an extensive network of cities and settlements in the province of Mawarannahr ( a name given the region after the Arab conquest ) in Uzbekistan and farther east in what is today China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Soghdian intermediaries became the wealthiest of these Iranian merchants.

The wealthiest is Loudoun County.

Victoria is presently the wealthiest college at the University of Toronto by net assets.

" Hogg ( Sorrell Booke ) is the wealthiest man in Hazzard County ( except in a 4th season episode, " Ten Million Dollar Sheriff ", in which Rosco allegedly inherits $ 10 million ), and owns most of its property and businesses — whether directly or by holding the mortgages over the land.

Once the heartland of the Venetian Republic, Veneto is today among the wealthiest, most developed and industrialised regions of Italy.

According to the 2011 census, it's estimated the county has a population of 871, 233, and it is the wealthiest African American-majority county in the United States.

Trento is also one of the nation's wealthiest and most prosperous, with its province being one of the richest in Italy, although poorer than its neighbours Lombardy and South Tyrol, with a GDP per capita of € 29, 500 and a GDP ( nominal ) of € 14. 878 billion.

Amassing an enormous fortune during his life, Crassus is considered the wealthiest man in Roman history, and among the richest men in all history.

According to a recent UBS survey in August 2011, Nicosia is the wealthiest per capita city of the Eastern Mediterranean and the tenth richest city in the world by purchasing power in 2011.

As such, in the Western world, since the late 18th century, the bourgeoisie describes a social class " characterized by their ownership of capital, and their related culture "; hence, the personal terms bourgeois ( masculine, pronounced bo ͝ orˈZHwä ) and bourgeoise ( feminine, pronounced bo ͝ orˈZHwäz ) culturally identify the man or woman who is a member of the wealthiest social class in capitalist societies.

Hauts-de-Seine is France's second wealthiest département ( behind Paris ) and one of Europe's richest areas.

With wealthy coastal towns such as Palm Beach, Jupiter, Manalapan, and Boca Raton within its limits, as well as equestrian mecca Wellington and golfing haven Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach County is Florida's wealthiest county, with a per capita personal income of $ 44, 518 as of 2004.

Duane is good-looking, amusing and popular, and dates Jacy Farrow ( Shepherd ), the prettiest ( and wealthiest ) girl in town.