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  Amok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amok, sometimes spelled amuck and often used as "running amok," is a Malay word which in that language means to be out of control.
It is now, however, certain that the typical amok is the result of circumstances, such as domestic jealousy or gambling losses, which render a Malay desperate and weary of his life.
Thus, in 1634, the eldest son of the raja of Jodhpur ran amok at the court of Shah Jahan, failing in his attack on the emperor, but killing five of his officials.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amok   (744 words)

  
 WeirdSpace Encyclopedia: Amok
Story: Amok was born in the Stone Age.
When Amok learned about the resurfacing of the X-O armor he sought it out and attacked Donovan Wylie and the armor.
During Amok's second attack on Wylie, the Unity and Malakai returned [2].
www.weirdspace.dk /Acclaim/Amok.htm   (335 words)

  
 purevolume™ | Amok (Scotland)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Amok, a 5 piece heavy thrash metal band based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Amoks sound is driven by chunky, palm muted riffage with a healthy dose of fast shredding.
Combine that with catchy rythms, ear crushing drums and in your face vocals and the result is Amoks distinctively heavy, yet very accesable sound.
www.purevolume.com /amokscotland   (168 words)

  
 Diehard Paintball - AMOK Competition Paintball Team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
AMOK enjoys introducing paintball to new players with the Spring and Fall Challenge Series.
AMOK carries a high reputation for fair and accurate refereeing.
AMOK is committed to making the 2004 year our best.
www.diehardpaintball.com /cgi-bin/AMOK.asp   (138 words)

  
 Amok on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
AMOK [Amok], in the Bible, post-Exilic Jewish family.
Bijou Amok L'actrice Sarah Jessica Parker en porte trois pour fermer son gilet dans la dernière publicité Gap: la broche e.
A total of 16 people were killed when a former disgruntled student of the gymnasium ran amok and shot to death students and teachers before killing himself.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Amok.asp   (631 words)

  
 Sentenced : Amok - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
In particular, the large guitar wall and amazing ambition don't fail even for a second during Amok, even when Jarva's songs "Funeral Spring" and "Moon Magic" seem to be a little frustrating for a moment.
However, as a vocalist, Jarva succeeds in creating a depressive mood for every song, and that mood and the sound of Amok are traditional to a Finnish heavy metal band.
Still, Amok is a perfect choice for everyone who likes heavy metal with complex rockish guitar riffs.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,267515,00.html   (203 words)

  
 Circus Amok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Circus Amok is a New York City based circus-theater company whose mission is to provide free public art addressing contemporary issues of social justice to the people of New York City.
The knife-throwers are reciting statistics of the AIDS crisis, the stilters are dancing through the minefields of gentrification, the women are lifting the men into the final amok pyramid, and audiences are laughing and thinking.
Since that first project, Jennifer Miller, Circus Amok director, has collaborated with a crew of performers, most of whom she has trained in the traditional arts, lingo and folklore of the circus.
www.circusamok.org /about.html   (952 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Film: Polish cinema at Cottbus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
However, Amok is in fact relatively high-brow material in the current age.
Aside from the fact that women in the film are objectified (a relatively minor cause for concern as it happens), some viewers may find the graphic "snuff movie," which appears in the film, of a young attractive woman being tortured with a power drill to be an indictment of Zadrynski's truly warped and misogynist mind.
Amok may be a dull and unadventurous piece of film-making, but it is at least the product of an enquiring, critical and morally healthy individual.
www.ce-review.org /99/23/kinoeye23_horton.html   (1902 words)

  
 The Late BP Helium: Amok: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Listening to The Late BP Helium's debut album Amok can be a lot like watching someone sing into a hairbrush in front of the mirror.
That particular someone knows all the words and all the vocals and can hit every chord on air guitar, but despite the exuberance and sincerity of the performance, it's never more than mimicry spiked with the narcissistic thrill of playing the rock star.
Amok is at its best when Poole steps out from behind the pseudonym and throws some surprises into the mix.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/l/late-bp-helium/amok.shtml   (457 words)

  
 AMOK! :: View topic - Going AMOK! and the AMOK! Salute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Amoks know the true fact that there are not a lot of knifefights - but there are a lot of knife assaults - and AMOK!
When we gather, Amoks do not bow- we choose a partner, stand close together, guards down, and when there is a shout, both parties beset upon each other with ferocity and intent.
So amoks use the action of left hand coming to center (guarding the self) as the right hand touches their blade as our salute and action that triggers our mindeset into action (and we train to respond with a viscious assault until it is repeled).
www.knifefighting.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=162&   (836 words)

  
 AMOK | Rockdetector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
AMOK, conceived in Bergen during 2001, is a Grind imbued retro-Thrash venture of Norwegian underground elite.
AMOK delivered the demos 'Sadistic Attack', seeing AUDIOPAIN's Sverre Dæhli adding a guest guitar solo to the track 'Toxic Slayer', in 2001 and 'Lava Dictatorship' the following year.
19 January 2005 AMOK was spawn in 2000 as a grind/thrashmetal band.
www.rockdetector.com /artist,42498.sm   (228 words)

  
 Mini Run Amok - TLC Robotica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After our victory at Robotica, my son Aaron Joerger (then aged 9 years) wanted a 'bot to drive, and I was a little hesitant to turn him loose with 172 lbs.
Mini Run Amok is a 40% scale model of the original.
Mini Run Amok is not built for combat, but it makes a great pit toy and is fun just to drive around.
www.open.org /joerger/miniamok.html   (171 words)

  
 Running Amok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Amok" is one of the few Indonesian words used in English.
Its etymology dates back to 1665, when the meaning in the Malay language was "a murderous or violently uncontrollable frenzy that occurs chiefly among Malays." Indonesia, in the desperate midst of an economic crisis and approaching a controversial political election, is once again defining the term.
Suharto, whose nation is struggling under the weight of strict new guidelines imposed by the IMF in return for $50 million of emergency loans, is currently entertaining some ideas to increase the economic stability of the nation.
www.suite101.com /articles/article.cfm/5767   (630 words)

  
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 Amazon.com: Amok: Music: The Late BP Helium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Late BP Helium is the alter ego of Bryan Poole, who has spent the last eight years playing bass with bands like Great Lakes, Elf Power and Of Montreal.
With the release of his first solo album, Amok, Poole finally strikes out on his own.
Amok is all over the map: an intoxicating blend of 1970s-styled rockers, avant garde jams and straight-up poppy goodness.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002X6F8Q?v=glance   (381 words)

  
 amok books: catalog: amok fifth dispatch
The definitive reference work surveying the outer margins of our Information Age, the Amok Fifth Dispatch presents in one volume the entire gamut of extreme literature available from hundreds of publishers worldwide, complete with ordering information.
The previous sourcebook, the Amok Fourth Dispatch, became a must-read underground sensation and went on to sell over 50,000 copies.
"Amok is the research guide to all the sordid thoughts you'd never discuss at lunch...
www.amokbooks.com /books/dispatch.html   (310 words)

  
 KOMA/AMOK BOOKS
The Amok Journal: Sensurround Edition brings together accounts of the search for the erotic in the mechanical, the sublime in the visceral, and the spiritual in the electromagnetic, from explorations of the subtle effects of infrasound to death-defying grasps at the ultimate orgasm.
The field of inquiry is the prodigious psychic démi-monde of hallucination, schizophrenia, religious fervor, ecstatic possession, sexual obsession, mass hysteria, and private ritual, as documented by the rational methodology of science.
Stuart Swezey is the publisher of Amok Books and co-editor of the highly acclaimed Amok Fourth Dispatch sourcebook of the extremes of information in print.
www.komabookstore.com /amok.html   (1866 words)

  
 Amok definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
Amok: A syndrome first reported in the Malay people, usually male, consisting of a period of brooding followed by a sudden outburst of indiscriminate murderous frenzy, sometimes provoked by an insult, jealousy or sense of desperation.
The person who runs amok may also die in a form of murder-suicide.
The Malay word for "furious attack." Similar syndromes such as cafard in Polynesia and mal de pelea in Puerto Rico are known to occur in other peoples.
www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=23464   (216 words)

  
 THE METAL OBSERVER - Review - SENTENCED - Amok
“Amok” has been hailed as a classic in the Death Metal genre, even hailed as the best SENTENCED album ever.
”Amok” has some fine hard-hitting songs like the opener ”The War Ain’t Over”, ”Nepenthe” (“So drink to forget...” ahhhh smell the nostalgia oozing from my body) and ”Forever Lost” where the band is at their best form.
Talking about Tenkula, the lead guitar is a vital part of “Amok” and the bands sound in general, there’s always a melody or a tiny solo lick to make it more enjoyable.
www.metal-observer.com /articles.php?lid=1&sid=1&id=6303   (443 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Amok Fifth Dispatch: Sourcebook for the Extremes of Information: Books: Stuart Swezey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
What I find most refreshing about the Amok Catalog is that they place no moral judgement on the books they feature.
While there is some overlap between the previous Amok catalog and this one, the Fifth Dispatch is almost an entirely new book.
I feel this is probably due to many of the publications listed in the Fourth Dispatch no longer being available (given the ephemeral nature of much of the material featured).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1878923129?v=glance   (1057 words)

  
 AMOK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Find out about the range of activities undertaken by Amok: strategy, design and production services that will create value for your business.
View case studies of some of our recent work: examples of how Amok’s strategy, design and production services create value for our clients’ businesses.
Learn more about Amok: who we are, where we are, what makes us tick, and discover the answers to some of the more pressing questions about Amok.
www.amok.com.au   (73 words)

  
 Review - Amok
Amok is the beginnings of what could have been a rather nice looking Space SEU.
Quite simply we have a tech-demo preview of Amok, showing off graphics and some music.
The game is playable, but only to the point of controlling your ship over a repeated background.
gtw64.retro-net.de /Pages/a/Review_Amok.php   (142 words)

  
 AMOK! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All humans share the same physical mechanics–so the means of maintaining balance, issuing power, moving swiftly, finding root, degrees of physical integrity, and other related aspects will always remain consistent.
Local criminals had taken a single aspect of blade attack, and along with a ruthless mentality, had refined surprise attacks and ambushes to gain a deadly advantage.
As of 2004, there are more than 15 AMOK!
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AMOK!   (620 words)

  
 Amok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
History: Amok is a Giavanese youth whose fiancee Nikita was raped.
This drives him to become a masked executioner, who wears a "grotesque mask" on the chest of his costume to inspire terror in his foes.
No infringement is intended and copyrights remain at source.
www.internationalhero.co.uk /a/amok.htm   (65 words)

  
 Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press
run amok to be out of control and act in a wild or dangerous manner:
The army ran amok after one of its senior officers was killed.
The two dogs ran amok in a school playground.
dictionary.cambridge.org /results.asp?dict=B&searchword=amok   (55 words)

  
 GameStats: Amok
The future is a battleground and all the world has run amuck in Scavenger's new action game, Amok.
Featuring 360 degrees of 3D play, in Amok gamers are put in control of a high-tech battle craft capable of bringing destruction on land, air and sea.
Faced with 20 suicidal missions and loaded with a range of weapons, including guided missiles, laser cannons and bombs, players must seek out and destroy multiple enemies simultaneously.
www.gamestats.com /objects/003/003579   (159 words)

  
 Amok... (F.K.A. Xistential Void)
So, since the deadline for the video to get in to the Battle of the Bands was today, we're still out, but we'll play eventually.
Other than that, we changed the name to Amok...
I was the only one who objected to the change, because it meant that I would have to get a new web site, but whatever...
xamokx.tripod.com   (1479 words)

  
 Amok : Reviews, Preview, Cheats, News, Screenshots, Movies, and Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Amok" is rated Teen, for Animated Violence, Animated Blood
Get behind the controls of a land walker and technologically advanced submarine, and take on nine missions where the only goal is to destroy everything in sight.
But, if you prefer the smell of burning flesh, you can take that same friend and blast him into little bits.
www.rottentomatoes.com /g/saturn/amok/about.php   (307 words)

  
 Tom DeLay is running amok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told religious conservatives that the judiciary had "run amok" and has demanded Congress assert authority over the courts.
It is DeLay who has "run amok." He convened Congress to interfere in the Terri Schiavo case rather than letting the family and the courts handle it.
DeLay is laying the groundwork for doing away with the filibuster that might stand in the way of Republican judicial appointments.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0410sunlets108.html   (151 words)

  
 orange twin
With the release of his first solo album, "Amok," BP strikes out on his own.
freemusic.cz - amok record review Nov. 2004 (czech)
st.nu - amok record review Nov. 2004 (swedish)
www.orangetwin.com /amok.html   (339 words)

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