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	Ninja References
		Ninja in fiction are divisible into two large categories, those based on realistic accounts and those based largely on imaginative accounts.
		Purely fictional accounts of ninja are often the image many Japanese have of an assassin in a fantasy.
		In western popular culture, the ninja are often depicted as supremely well-trained martial artists who use many kinds of exotic equipment and skills to accomplish their missions.
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		Ninja weapons could also be used cleverly as tools such as using the cord of their sword scabbard to construct a hammock between tree branches.
		Ninja in fiction are dividable in two large categories, those based on realistic accounts and those based largely on imaginative accounts.
		In western popular culture, ninja are often depicted as simply supremely well trained martial artists who use many kinds of exotic equipment and skills to accomplish their missions.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Ninja.html (2401 words)

	Ninja -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ninja or Shinobi (literally, "One who is concealed, or one that endures") were agents of (The systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets) espionage and (A murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed) assassins.
		Purely fictional accounts of ninja are often the image many Japanese have of an (A murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed) assassin in a (Imagination unrestricted by reality) fantasy.
		In western popular culture, the ninja are often depicted as supremely well-trained (additional info and facts about martial artists) martial artists who use many kinds of exotic equipment and skills to accomplish their missions.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/N/Ni/Ninja.htm (3122 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (comic book)
		This article is concerns biological mutants; for fictional aspects see Mutant (fictional) A mutant is an individual, organism, or new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is a sudden structural change within the DNA of a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the...
		The Foot Clan is a fictional Ninjutsu clan in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe.
		April ONeil and the TMNT April ONeil is a fictional character in the Mirage Studios franchise Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-%28comic-book%29 (4546 words)

	Ninja
		Ninja appears in many games and their characters are loosely based on historical facts.
		In Final Fantasy series, ninja are different from series to series and first appeared in Final Fantasy III as one of higher class skills.
		Several of Wizardry series had an odd twist, because wearing an armor reduced ninja's advantage of evading an enemy attack, ninja were typically unclothed by players.
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	Howstuffworks "How Ninja Work"
		Although ninja were almost always Japanese, the roots of the ninja philosophy lie in China, where Sun Tzu wrote "The Art of War" in the 4th or 5th century, B.C. "The Art of War" is a guide for military commanders that is still considered essential reading for modern military officers, as well as businesspeople.
		At least one ninja is known to have faked his own death so that when he returned, he would be feared as a ghost.
		Some ninja may have used poison on their bladed weapons, though the murky historical records make it difficult to tell if this is true.
	science.howstuffworks.com /ninja.htm/printable (2272 words)

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		Shinobi or Ninja (忍者, literally, "One who is concealed") were agents of espionage and assassination, trained in the Japanese art of ninjutsu (roughly the art of stealth).
		One of the lesser known contributions made by ninja is their involvement in furthering the research of fireworks.
		For deception, ninjas would carry a wakizashi in a katana saya to allow faster drawing of the sword and miscalculation of the opponent.
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	Ninja (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ninja or shinobi (忍者, literally, "stealth person") were warriors and assassins, trained in the Japanese art of ninjutsu (roughly the art of stealth).
		Many of the mythical ninja powers, like becoming invisible, jumping over tall fences, casting spells and calling up a giant toad larger than a human, were all invented in these fictitious accounts of ninja.
		Disguises were selected on their ease of travel and unsuspiciousness and it wasn't uncommon for a ninja to actually engage in a sidebusiness and make a profit.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ninja (2427 words)

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		In feudal Japan, ninja or shinobi (literally, "one who is concealed," or "one that endures") were sometimes assassins and agents of espionage.
		In western popular culture, the ninja are often depicted as supremely well-trained martial artists who use many kinds of exotic equipment and skills to accomplish their missions.
		Ninja in western popular culture, though predominantly Asian, are not monolithically so—westerners have been depicted as ninja and as martial artists generally, as in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Ninja (2514 words)

	Talk:Ninja - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most common thread I've seen were that the people who became ninjas were immigrants from China, who lived separately from the Japanese, who were barely, if at all, tolerated, who needed to develop their arts to avoid invasion from far greater forces, which lead to them becoming in demand as both spies and assassins.
		Shirukens were used as distractions (they are shiny and a ninja would throw them to the side of an enemy to confuse him with a flying object) and almost never used as a weapon.
		Ninja would use shuriken as more of a psychological weapon, throwing glancing blows that would cut instead of aiming for vitals.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Ninja (1631 words)

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		Shinobi or Ninja (忍者, literally, "One who is concealed") were assassins, trained in the Japanese art of ninjutsu (roughly the art of stealth).
		The beginning of ninja is shrouded in a secret, not least because ninja rarely left anything in writing or boasted of their achievements.
		To be less conspicuous, ninjas carried a daisho since many were of the samurai class.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ni/Ninja.htm (2389 words)

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		The history of the ninja is shrouded in secrecy, due to the fact that ninja rarely left anything in writing or boasted of their achievements.
		Common disguises of ninja included but were not limited to monks, yamabushi, waiter and waitress, traveling salesman, artist, and ronin.
		For deception, ninjas would carry a wakizashi in a katana saya to allow faster drawing of the sword and cause the opponent to miscalculate.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Japanese-warriors/Ninja.html (2515 words)

	Bookninja
		The essence of fiction is the suspension of disbelief.
		The problem is, fiction is still too often mysterious to me. When I read for pleasure, I have no internal novelist breaking scenes down into strategic tricks and techniques.
		Ninja parade slips through town completely unnoticed (video)… Yes, we’re like that.
	www.bookninja.com (7656 words)

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		Ninja (å¿è) or shinobi (å¿ã³) (literally, "one who endures") were said to be agents of espionage and assassination in feudal Japan.
		'Ninja?' What is this 'Ninja?' The short version of the origin of the Ninja, retold many times in books and on film, goes something like this: The Ninja arts originated in ancient China, then traveled to Japan during the Tang Dynasty.
		The ninja was the legendary warrior of China.
	ninja.fabbn.com /index.php?k=myths-of-ninja (1299 words)

	Ninja in Western fiction -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sho Kosugi was famous for his portrayals of ninja in several movies of varying quality.
		The ninja clan that taught her, The Hand, is also a regular foe of (additional info and facts about superhero) superheroes like (A reckless impetuous irresponsible person) Daredevil and (Stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal) Wolverine.
		In (additional info and facts about Usagi Yojimbo) Usagi Yojimbo there are several ninja clans, including the Neko who operate in the regular manner, the Komori, who are bats and attack from the air, and the Mogura, moles which attack from below the ground.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ni/ninja_in_western_fiction.htm (274 words)

	GreenCine \| Science Fiction
		In the movies, the term science fiction has been applied equally to genuinely speculative flights of fiction and any fantasy with a futuristic setting, a ray gun, an alien monster or a space ship.
		Russian cinema used science fiction as a lens through which to view the ideals of socialism and the threats to that ideal, notably in the visually delirious space-opera spoof Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924), about a social revolution on Mars.
		But science fiction has always been more accurate at reflecting the conditions of its own time than predicting the details of things to come, and 1950s SF cinema is rife with anxiety and paranoia.
	www.greencine.com /static/primers/sci-fi-1.jsp (2507 words)

	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles @ WWWF Grudge Match
		Their battle cry will enable the Ninja Turtles to go into the fight at 137% of their capabilities, which is 136% more than they need to whoop up on a few show-offs from Angel Grove.
		Two guys in western Massachussetts decided to create a book that was at once a parody and a homage to the hot trends in the comics industry, which were: collectives of superpowered teenagers, mutants, ninjas, and anthropomorphics (using animals as people, like Orwell's "Animal Farm").
		Ninja are trained in the arts of concealment and surprise, and therefore would be able to wipe out the Powder Rangers before they ever knew what hit 'em.
	www.grudge-match.com /History/tmnt-mmpr.shtml (7956 words)

	Ninja - TheBestLinks.com - Assassin, Camouflage, East Asia, Final Fantasy, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ninja - TheBestLinks.com - Assassin, Camouflage, East Asia, Final Fantasy,...
		Ninja, Assassin, Camouflage, East Asia, Final Fantasy, Folktale, Haiku, Japan...
		One of the lesser known contributions made by ninja is their involvement in furthuring the research of fireworks.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Ninja.html (2434 words)

	North Atlantic Books - Western Esoteric Masters
		G.R.S. Mead was a major translator, editor, and commentator on Gnostic and hermetic literature and thus a pivotal figure linking the late 19th-century esoteric revival to 20th-century art, literature, and psychology
		This volume of Western Esoteric Masters introduces Helena Blavatsky to the student and general reader by means of a concise anthology of her writings.
		Robert Fludd (1574-1637) was a true Renaissance man: Kabbalist and alchemist, scientist and philosopher, astrologer and musician, his richly illustrated writings cover the entire range of practical, scientific, divinatory, and speculative thought known at the time.
	www.northatlanticbooks.com /store/esotericmasters.html (241 words)

	Intersections: Innocence to Deviance: The Fetishisation of Japanese Women in Western Fiction, 1890s-1990s
		An extension of the contemporaneous Western fascination with the aesthetics of Japonaiserie (a term coined by Baudelaire in 1861), this exotic Japan romance genre was pioneered by French writer Louis Marie Julien Viaud (1850-1923), otherwise known as Pierre Loti.
		Even as Chinese women had became sinister and treacherous in Western novels in the 1920s and 1930s through such characters as Fah Lo Suee, daughter of Sax Rohmer's infamous Fu Manchu,[52] many of the characteristics that Western fiction previously ascribed only to Japanese men became associated with the Japanese woman.
		A fictional member of the Japanese Red Army, famous for their actual terrorist activities in the late 1960s and onwards, Reiko's crimes in Japan allegedly include the killing of two policemen and fourteen of her followers, including her own brother, and the hijacking of a Japan Airlines flight to North Korea.
	wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au /intersections/issue7/morris.html (6158 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Le Western dans..." to "Western Publishing Company" (A-B titles)
		All Quiet on the Western Front / by Erich Maria Remarque ; illustrated by Maurice DelBourgo.
		Batman : the Case of the Sticky Fingers / text by Jack C. Harris ; illustrated by Al Bigley, Mike De Carlo, and Tad Zar Chow.
		Batman and the Ninja / adapted by Chip Lovitt ; based on the script by Steve Perry ; illustrated by Mike Parobeck, Rick Burchett, and Rick Taylor.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/wrri/westz.htm (3879 words)

	New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (TMNT) movie trailer - Joystiq
		Back in the late 80's, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a big deal in pop culture, at least with little tykes like yours truly.
		I'm pretty sure the reason for calling them "Heroes" instead of "Ninjas" was that they thought hero sounded more western, more american than ninja; which obviously isn't exactly western.
		The switch from Ninja to hero was made because of censorship laws in England during the early 90s.
	www.joystiq.com /2006/07/22/new-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle-tmnt-movie-trailer (3773 words)

	TMNT Manga
		This time I sent him with instructions to search for the Ninja Turtles manga for me. One of the comics he found was #2 from the 3 issue mini-series for which you have cover scans of on the site.
		He also found 2 issues of an on-going series and the adaptation of the third movie.
		Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles®, including Raphael®, Michaelangelo®, Leonardo®, Donatello®, and April O'Neil® are registered trademarks of Mirage Studios USA.
	www.ninjaturtles.com /comics/manga.htm (699 words)

	Film Baby Genre: Action
		Watch first hand as Ryan Rogers runs up through Granite Cree...
		George McGoogle is a ninja, and a damn good one at that!
		Follow his adventures as he battles evil ninjas, searches for his long lost brother, and tries to save the alterna-teens!
	filmbaby.com /genres/2 (514 words)

	SF: Episode One (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Trivia: The sword that is stolen in this film was borrowed from the estate of 'Toshiro Mifune'.
		SAMURAI FICTION (4 outta 5 stars) What a terrific movie!
		It's described as a comedy but, while it does have a lot of humour in it, I think it holds up pretty well with any of the classic samurai stories.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0170544 (450 words)

	Taps for Private Tussie, Teen Age Sports Stories, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Temba Dawn ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Antiquarian and Collectible Literature, Poetry, Western Fiction, Children's Books, Texana, Western Americana and more..
		Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Buried Treasure Morris, Dave (illustrated by Phil Jacobs).
		Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Movie Hiller, B.B. Dell Yearling N.Y. 5th Printing paperback Very Good in wraps.
	www.johnmarston.com /children000043.htm (556 words)

	Never-Ending Story Engine - Infinite Story
		This site is an interactive fiction writing engine that allows one to read and write infinite stories.
		Infinite, or branching stories are stories that have choices for the reader at the end of each chapter or "room." Each choice then takes the reader to a new room and the story continues.
		Site design and code by Justin M. Rubaloff, Copyright © 1995-2007, All Rights Reserved
	www.infinite-story.com (137 words)

	Secrets of Sparrow Memoirs, Secrets of Better Cooking, Secrets of Serotonin, Secrets of Success in Your Own, Secrets of ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Secrets of Sparrow Memoirs, Secrets of Better Cooking, Secrets of Serotonin, Secrets of Success in Your Own, Secrets of Ninja, Secrets of Seas Marvels
		Random House NY 1977, First Edition hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket (English Literature, First, Editions, Mystery)
		Morrow NY 1994, First Edition hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket (Horror First, Editions, Fiction)
	www.johnmarston.com /000620.htm (427 words)

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