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    captivity the ottomans were quite generous. Instead of being locked in a cell the entire time during captivity. The Ottomans schooled them in standard classes like latin, history,science, and the art of war. The Ottomans also taught the brothers in swordsmanship. The Ottomans also taught Vlad the art of impalement. Probably the most fierce,most painful kind of torturing. Impalement done the right way can be the most painful and slowest death there can be.

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    Storyline In 1868, after the end of the Bakumatsu war, the former assassin Kenshin Himura promises to defend those who need without killing and wanders through Japan with a sword with inverted blade during the transition of the samurai age to the New Age. When Kenshin helps the idealistic Kaoru Kamiya from the gangsters of the powerful opium drug lord Kanryuu Takeda that wants her school for his production of opium, Kaoru invites Kenshin to stay in the school. But the drug chemist Megumi Takani escapes

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    the snake with the sword, the one who carried himself with quiet confidence, would cower in fear to the silver-eyed lion with the bow. But after a few months, everything had changed. Khalid, not being who she thought he was, having mastery over swordsmanship, over his mind and wit definitely more than Tariq, no match at all for him. The silver-tongued snake with poison would strike fast and hard, a mortal wound to the cowardly

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    Maggie Furey is a British novelist from Northumberland best known for the Artefacts of Power and the Creatures of Darkness series of Paranormal Fantasy Thrillers. Even as she was born and bred in Northumberland, England’s riches legend and lore filled county and a perfect setting for fantasy, she was never an active child. She was born with a rare heart condition that made it impossible for her to be physically active during her childhood. Given her condition she spent much of her time finding entertainment

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    Culture is defined in different ways throughout the region of the world, with different characteristics that define culture. In this paper I will define the meaning of Japan’s culture and describe Japan’s common culture characteristics throughout their nation’s physical geography, military conflict history, and weather analysis. Culture is by the beliefs, customs, arts, a particular society, group, place or time such as music, theater, painting, their habits, and traditions. Like ways of life

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    their father's loyalty. During this time is Vlad’s life, he was tortured by the Ottomans. The Ottomans knew however, that Vlad could and would one day become leader of Wallachia, so they tutored him and his brother is science, arts, philosophy, swordsmanship, and horse riding. While he was with the empire, Vlad’s father, Vlad II, was most likely with a group of people called the Order of the Dragon. They were an elite group of people who protected Christain interest and would crusade against turks

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    There was kid who believed in a world of happiness and peace but this story isn’t his story it’s about a kid who lost everything. Is there a beginning to this story yes there is but we must go to the era where gods ruled everything their where two tribes the Dragons & Demigods. Dragons are a tribe that wanted territory and the Demigods wanted the same thing so the two tribes fought stupid wars over territory’s and so when they realized their mistake and made peace with each other. But where are the

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    Geralt

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    a bear”. The school of wolf harbors advanced dodging, counter more than any human could be at the peak of. The children or potential Witchers go through intense training in which in the end, they compete in trials to test their knowledge and swordsmanship. This is mandatory since the trials test their strength in order to become a Witcher because you don’t want to have a bad witcher come and clear out of the cave of monsters and suddenly die which gives the Witchers a bad reputation. The trial of

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    How does one define a “hero?” By classic definition, a hero is a man of great strength, valor and swordsmanship who fights evil even in the face of insurmountable odds to defend the lives of the innocent and those that can’t protect themselves. Indeed it is these very attributes which separate heroes from the common man. However, the word “hero” takes an entirely different connotation in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic tale The Hobbit, in which the hero of the story is a furry-footed, complacent, hole dwelling

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    From olympic athlete to catching Pancho Villa, from commanding tanks to the whole 3rd army, General George S. Patton Jr., “Old Blood and Guts”, lived anything but a normal life. George Patton Jr. was born on November 11, 1885 in San Gabriel, California to parents Ruth WIlson Patton and George Patton Sr. He only had one sibling, Anne Wilson Patton, who was two years younger than him.A fiery and energetic boy, he was always fascinated by stories of his ancestors in early America’s wars, and set his

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