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Maratha hero Shivaji agrees to discuss terms with a Bijapur general named Afzal Khan. The two men met with their body- guards in ...

tradition his discussions with three rônin(masterless samurai) named Fukuno Hichiroemon, Isogai Jirozaemon, and Miura Yojiemon h ...

Japanese ultranationalists, and the quotation “The Way of the Samurai is found in death” was especially popular. 1719 Prince Phr ...

About 1755 Toward reducing the risk of accidental blinding, metal masks pierced by eyeholes appear in Parisian fencing salles. B ...

1768 In the Clerkenwell district of London (perhaps at the London Spa), two female prizefighters mill for a prize of a dress val ...

though they worked well, these technologically advanced .56 caliber weapons were withdrawn from service in 1801 and banned outri ...

1803 The word amateurenters the English language. Originally it re- ferred solely to literary dilettantes, but during the 1860s ...

About 1830 Irish immigrants introduce collar-and-elbow wrestling into New England. The style was often used by the Irish to sett ...

1842 A prizefight between Charles Freeman and William Perry on December 6 becomes the first to use the railway as a means of tra ...

1858 On October 13, an Austin, Texas, newspaper called theSouth- ern Intelligencerreports that “it is a common thing here to see ...

1865 With the publication of a book called Researches into the His- tory of Early Mankind,the English anthropologist Edward B. T ...

1881 The Japanese army replaces neo-Confucian bushidôwith tokuho,a Prussian-inspired “Soldiers’ Code.” (Although trained by the ...

lishes an article called “The New Art of Self Defence” in Pear- son’s Magazine.Barton-Wright had studied jûjutsu while living in ...

soldier with patriotic conformity, martial spirit, obedience, and toughness of mind and body.” 1912 Xu Yusheng, the vice-directo ...

Wrestling.” This was a carefully choreographed act designed to return more of the gate profits to the wrestlers than the promote ...

1932 An El Paso saddler named Sam Myres produces the first com- mercial quick-draw holsters, with a design following the ideas o ...

sia with an Islamic nationalist government, whose leaders of the new government include Achmed Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta; with ...

progress. Therefore the China Wushu Association was created, under the aegis of the All-China Athletic Federation, and tasked wi ...

Jose kenpô stylist called Black Militant Ohm, a ringside an- nouncer invents the term kickboxing. 1974 Mike Anderson, a taekwond ...

Alter, Joseph S. 1992. The Wrestler’s Body: Identity and Ideology in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press. Ashe ...