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	List of famous duels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ramadan proposed that the duel be held in a neutral land, with each party using the same weapons, and with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan presiding as the supervisor.
		The Duel a philosophic novella by Anton Chekhov
		The Skulls, a 2000 movie, culminates in a duel between the two main characters, though neither fires on the other and the fight is eventually interrupted by the father of one of the participants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_duels (3907 words)

	A duel or duel of honour is a personal combat intended...
		A "duel" or "duel of honour" is a personal combat intended to settle an affront to the personal honour honour of an offended individual by another of the equivalent social class.
		The first code duello code duello (dueling code) appeared in Renaissance Renaissance Italy Italy with the publication of the "Flos duellatorum" in 1410, it was followed by a series of increasingly complicated Italian manuals.
		The famous fatal duel between Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Aaron Burr and that of the Duke of Wellington Duke of Wellington and the 10th Earl of Winchilsea 10th Earl of Winchilsea are among the most famous, but there was opposition to dueling.
	www.biodatabase.de /Duel (489 words)

	Duels and Ordeals
		It is true that with the fall of chivalry, as an institution, fell the tournament, and the encounter in the lists; but the duel, their offspring, has survived to this day, defying the efforts of sages and philosophers to eradicate it.
		Duels were not rare in the other countries of Europe at the same period; but in France they were so frequent, that historians, in speaking of that age, designate it as "l'epoque de la fureur des duels." The Parliament of Paris endeavoured, as far as in its power lay, to discourage the practice.
		With regard to the public duel, or trial by battle, demanded under the sanction of the law, to terminate a quarrel which the ordinary course of justice could with difficulty decide, Bacon was equally opposed to it, and thought that in no case should it be granted.
	robotics.caltech.edu /~mason/Delusions/epd_duels.html (15979 words)

	Hamilton-Burr Duel Bicentennial - Duels and Duelling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Duels and Duelling on the Web, is a one stop portal for all sorts of information about affairs of honor available on the Internet.
		Hamilton and Burr were the most famous duellists at Weehawken, but they were not the only people to settle affairs of honor with pistols here.
		Here is a list of the 18 known duels in Weehawken from 1798 - 1845.
	duel2004.weehawkenhistory.org /duels.php (138 words)

	Cool Spaghetti! Yo.
		What follows is a VERY short list of famous duels that I have managed to collect from various sources.
		He engaged in duels from the age of 16 and was in about 60 matches.
		Sometime after his duel with Gunbei - after he starting questioning the essence of things - Musashi was supposed to have answered a challenge to a duel by fighting with a steel Fan.
	www.geocities.com /georgemccall/duels.html (1920 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Politicians Who Participated in Duelling
		Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America; Arnold A.
		The fierce campaign of 1830 led to a quarrel and ultimately a duel with Maj. Thomas Biddle, in which both fell mortally wounded; died, in St.
		Engaged in a duel with A. Russell, editor of the San Francisco Picayune, on January 12, 1852; Russell was slightly wounded.
	politicalgraveyard.com /special/duel-participants.html (2424 words)

	Early Modern Notes » Thinking about duels and violent gentlemen
		And right now it has me thinking about the subject of the duel, on which there’s been a good deal of research since the late 1980s (perhaps especially in the mid-90s).
		Often, duelling and the concern with ‘honour’ that gives rise to duels is seen as something very specifically related to social and political elites.
		It is a cultural study of aristocratic masculinity and the duel that draws on plays, but also on anti-duelling pamplets and fencing manuals.
	www.earlymodernweb.org.uk /emn/index.php/archives/2005/08/thinking-about-duels-and-violent-gentlemen (2309 words)

	The American Experience \| The Duel \| People & Events \| Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's Duel
		On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on the dueling grounds at Weehawken, New Jersey, to fight the final skirmish of a long-lived political and personal battle.
		When the duel was over, Hamilton would be mortally wounded, and Burr would be wanted for murder.
		Hoping that a victory on the dueling ground could revive his flagging political career, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/duel/peopleevents/pande17.html (544 words)

	Summer Reading Lists >Instructional Services Department
		List is in alphabetic order by author's last name.
		Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness, and is able to discover a haunting truth when his family moves to Tangerine, Florida.
		In this photobiography, his daughter writes a personal account of this famous athlete and civil rights activist, and the legacy he has left.
	www.fcps.edu /DIS/readlist/78.htm (5093 words)

	Today in History: June 29
		Clay was charming, self-confident, and ambitious, but his hot temper led him to fight two duels over matters of honor.
		With orators Daniel Webster and Stephen Douglas, Clay argued pleadingly for tolerance among factions and for the preservation of the Union.
		At the end of his famous speech of February 6, 1850, Clay prayed that he would not live to see the dissolution of his beloved nation.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jun29.html (1035 words)

	Theatre Reading List From James Madison University
		These plays are representative of the styles, periods, and major playwrights with which a student needs to be familiar in order to appreciate the range of theatre and drama as well as embark upon a career with a solid stylistic, historical, and dramatic foundation.
		One of the most monumental tragedies in the English language, it weaves together two terrible stories of fathers who fail to see the truth in their children until it’s too late.
		His sister, Bernice, however, argues that the piano, representative of their past, their struggles, their ancestors, is too precious to sell and that something irretrievable would be lost if it were.
	www.jmu.edu /theatre/readinglist.htm (5196 words)

	Literary Terms and Definitions T (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This list is meant to assist, not intimidate.
		The habit of gentlemanly duels, which continued through the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Early Romantic period, along with the Western American practice of the gun-fight, are vague remnants of this earlier practice among knights.
		The list goes on at length, with the figurations varying greatly in terms of how plausible they seem to modern Christians and non-Christians.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/lit_terms_T.html (8623 words)

	danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: The ten worst Americans
		All lists of this type are temporary until the formation of the Second American Republic.
		IMHO it'd be fair to just list, as one entry, "recent American serial killers," since for some reason the worst of them tended to cluster in the 1970's.
		But the discussion is whether he merits being included on a '10 worst' list, and that depends almost completely upon his status as the leader of the Klan for 2 years.
	www.danieldrezner.com /archives/002493.html (2310 words)

	2001 Robert's Picks--Top Twenty Films
		The canvas is big (the Siege of Leningrad in WW II), the main characters are larger-than-life (two famous snipers and a future Premier of the Soviet Union), and the romance is as old-fashioned as Casablanca.
		The best parts of this film are the one-on-one duels between the Russian sniper and hero of the Soviet Union (Vasilli, played by Jude Law), and the German sniper who comes to kill him (Koenig, played by Ed Harris).
		Their lives are changed when the woman is struck while driving her car in city traffic and eventually loses her leg because of the injuries caused by the wreck.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~yahnk001/filmlist/2001-topfilms.htm (4571 words)

	Renaissance List
		A useful listing of fencing terms dealing mostly with the modern sport form and that of the 18th and 19th centuries.
		Social history of the dueling phenomena in France during the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Chapters on Panama, Peru, Cortez, the second half of the book is on famous American duels and a large section on John Paul Jones.
	www.thehaca.com /RenList.htm (2297 words)

	Famous People: Duels: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr \| eThemes \| eMINTS
		Find out how popular duels were in America and learn about the most infamous and tragic duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
		Learn the anatomy of duels: their historical origins, reasons, and outcomes.
		This page has facts from life of Aaron Burr and includes a list of facts that led to the duel with Alexander Hamilton.
	www.emints.org /ethemes/resources/S00001497.shtml (375 words)

	Famous Affinities of History - by Lyndon Orr [Authorama]
		Other men had had the audacity to woo her–among them Duc de Lauzun, whose complicity in the famous affair of the diamond necklace afterward cast her, though innocent, into ruin; the Duc de Biron; and the Baron de Besenval, who had obtained much influence over her, which he used for the most evil purposes.
		He made that period famous for its card-playing, its deep drinking, and for the dissolute conduct of its courtiers and noblemen no less than for the gallantry of its soldiers and its momentous victories on sea and land.
		George, wishing in every way to be “romantic,” insisted upon clandestine meetings on the Thames at Kew, with all the stage trappings of the popular novels–cloaks, veils, faces hidden, and armed watchers to warn her of approaching danger.
	www.authorama.com /book/famous-affinities-of-history-ii.html (23159 words)

	Radiata Stories Detailed Checklist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Her name on the friends list is always where Cornelia should appear, but is listed as Rachel during her transformation.
		Then look over the list of people who you wanted to recruit, and make sure they are all on the list.
		Not all females are listed in the strategy guide (Elwen isn't, for example.) See the separate section on the Fireworks Date.
	www.personal.psu.edu /~wrp103/wrp/radiata_checklist.html (22718 words)

	Amazon.com: The Duellists: DVD: Ridley Scott,Keith Carradine,Harvey Keitel,Albert Finney,Edward Fox,Cristina ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The duel scenes are well-filmed and add a great deal of excitement to the plot.
		Soon the original insult is buried in a mountain of ego and tradition that demands the men face and fight one another--again and again--until one dies or accepts an apology from the other.
		The dueling scenes were superbly created--with each man facing his enemy--usually at dawn.
	www.amazon.com /Duellists-Ridley-Scott/dp/B000085RNP (2211 words)

	Vidocq: Convict Turned Detective Magnifique
		Off the battlefield, he continued to become embroiled in duels, and when an insulting and cowardly sergeant-major refused to meet him in honor, Vidocq struck the man, a superior — a hanging offense.
		Incensed by their lack of gallantry, the boy unsheathed his cutlass and took on the trio of soldiers, slaying them while the women fled.
		When not in her arms, he rousted with the Roving Army, a self-styled group of soldiers of fortune living off the fat of the land, loving women and dueling for frolic.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/vidocq/2.html (3330 words)

	MMORPG.COM - 9Dragons : Steven-Elliot Altman, Lead Writer
		The Korean teamâs writer and Loremaster, Jwa Baek, a rather famous best-selling author in Korea, did an amazing job at weaving the original story with compelling characters and Chinese mythology.
		Youâll learn that ten years past there was a war between the clans called The War of Nine Dragons, and that it concluded with a series of duels in which each of the clanâs best warriors were sent to compete to the death.
		Following The War, those 9 heroes mysteriously vanished, and so part of your destiny lies in walking The Road To The Dragon and discovering what happened to themâ¦ and determining your own unique part to play in the destiny of The Land.
	www.mmorpg.com /gamelist.cfm?gameId=235&setView=features&loadFeature=810&bhcp=1 (1977 words)

	50 Greatest Moments in Movie History !! - Movie-List Forums
		Goldfinger can also claim the most famous scene in all of Bond-age, wherein Agent 007 is strapped down in a spread eagle with an industrial laser veering straight for his manhood.
		While the lightsaber duels, blaster battles and dogfights drew the oohs and aahs, a visit to a bizarro-world cantina packed with a menagerie of grotesque and hilarious aliens - or "a wretched hive of scum and villainy," as Obi-Wan Kenobi described it - immediately became everyone's favorite scene.
		I'm sure if the AFI were to do one, I think this is was one of their top 100 lists, it'll be different.
	www.movie-list.com /forum/showthread.php?t=14605 (6166 words)

	GameStats: Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge
		The gameplay is based on its predecessor but with brand new tactical possibilities in a fully 3D environments.
		The player is able to switch from an isometric view to a third person view whenever he wants, for example for duels, brawls and shoot-outs.
		Take on the role of up to 6 heroes including the famous bounty hunter John Cooper and experience in a thrilling story with surprising turns.
	www.gamestats.com /objects/689/689726 (188 words)

	OscarWatch -Top Tens, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(a) the selecting of a 10-best list is arbitrariness squared and, (b) the picking of a top film of the year is arbitrariness refined to such a purity as to be almost meaningless.
		It's undeniable, of course, that subjectivity is part of these lists' essential nature, something that becomes apparent when it's time to rank the selections from one to 10.
		Make no mistake about it, this is the work of a natural-born filmmaker, which is perhaps the most important reason why putting it at the top was as pleasant as it was inevitable.
	www.oscarwatch.com /Awards/toptenlists.html (3543 words)

	Red Baron Stuff, Model Airplanes, Videos, DVD Movies, Pictures.
		This is the plane was flown by the famous Baron Manfred Von Richthofen.
		The famous Fokker Triplane was flown by von Richthofen and his squadron-mates in WWI.
		They were heroic, larger-than-life personalities, famous for their death-defying feats.
	www.yellowairplane.com /Models_Famous_People/Famous_Baron_Von_Richthofen_Stuff.html (1120 words)

	OgreCave.com - OgreCave's 2003 Christmas List - part 1
		So take each one of these lists and pass them on to your loved ones, and then on the special day, remember who it was that guided their hands toward that perfect present from one of our forthcoming lists.
		The first of two entries on our list suitable for the whole family, this is a well-appointed, lovely little card game that comes with everything you need to play (even a pencil and scoring pad).
		Its theme is simple: the foxes and rats are trying to get into the chicken coop and out again with their dinner, but if the farmer can send in his guard dog to catch them in the act, the chickens will be safe.
	www.ogrecave.com /features/12xmas_2003_1.shtml (1925 words)

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