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Gladiators Although Rome deserves credit for developing much of what we know as Western society, many aspects of Roman life were ...

in every province of the empire. Although gladiatorial games existed throughout the empire, the greatest, and by far the most pr ...

opponent. In these contests, armor played an important role, as well. The retiarius was the more lightly armored of the two, wea ...

protection, was light and mobile. He could move it easily to deflect the tri- dent. Second, the armor of the Thracian meant that ...

The Samnites were indeed a civilization on the Italian peninsula that was hostile to Rome; the Romans encountered them in the fo ...

The question, of course, arises about the issue of combat between the Samnite or secutor and the Thracian or retiarius. Much of ...

the fechtbuchs (Dutch; fighting manual) of the European masters, to war- riors of the Middle Ages and Renaissance as well. These ...

Although providing martial training for use outside the arena was not the primary function of the lanistae(trainers of gladiator ...

Gunfighters Gunfighters, also known as gunslingers, shootists, pistoleers, or simply gunmen, were a fixture of the nineteenth-ce ...

Hickock acquired a mantle that he never wore in life, that of a defender of American civilization against gunrunning and savager ...

vided the basis for John Ford’s 1946 film My Darling Clementine. Holliday’s fame soared largely on Earp’s coattails, and Masters ...

(quoted in Horan 1976, 4). Many of his compatriots seem to have agreed. Sheriff Pat Garrett shot Billy the Kid from the protecti ...

the Louis L’Amour novel Heller with a Gun,King Mabry is credited with fif- teen—before he corrects the record by admitting to ju ...

fine art” (Cunningham 1947), gunfighting was too chaotic and personal a practice to ever be considered a martial system. Gunfigh ...

Lake, Stuart. 1931. Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal.Boston: Houghton Mifflin. L’Amour, Louis. 1992. Heller with a Gun.1955. Reprint ...

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Hankuk Haedong Kumdô See Swordsmanship, Korean/Hankuk Haedong Kumdô Hapkidô Hapkidô(Way of Coordinated Power) is a Korean method ...

cluded archery, lance, stone sword, and knife, as well as the brand of wrestling common across most of Central Asia. Practiced b ...

and kyûdô(Japanese Archery). Korean nationals were relocated to Japan to service the needs of Japanese industry, farming, and do ...

A preponderance of Hapkidô practitioners can trace their instruction back to Choi Yong-Shul, or to Choi through Ji. Among the mo ...