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  2. Death poem - Wikipedia

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    The jisei, or death poem, of Kuroki Hiroshi, a Japanese sailor who died in a Kaiten suicide torpedo accident on 7 September 1944. It reads: "This brave man, so filled with love for his country that he finds it difficult to die, is calling out to his friends and about to die".

  3. Seppuku - Wikipedia

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    Those who did not belong to the samurai caste were never ordered or expected to carry out seppuku. Samurai could generally carry out the act only with permission. Sometimes a daimyō was called upon to perform seppuku as the basis of a peace agreement. This weakened the defeated clan so that resistance effectively ceased.

  4. Deals with the Devil in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Right: The devil reappears a year later and forces Haizmann to sign another pact with his own blood. Middle: The Virgin Mary makes the devil to return the second pact during an exorcism. The idea of making a deal with the devil has appeared many times in works of popular culture. These pacts with the Devil can be found in many genres, including ...

  5. War in Heaven - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Moses, included in the LDS standard works canon, references the war in heaven and Satan's origin as a fallen angel of light. [15] The concept of a war in heaven at the end of time became an addendum to the story of Satan's fall at the genesis of time—a narrative which included Satan and a third of all of heaven's angels.

  6. Super-Charger Heaven - Wikipedia

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    "Super-Charger Heaven" (sometimes referred to as "Devil Man" due to its chorus) is the third and final single off White Zombie's 1995 studio album, Astro-Creep: 2000. The song can also be found on Rob Zombie 's Past, Present & Future , the greatest hits album The Best of Rob Zombie , and a remix can be found on Supersexy Swingin' Sounds .

  7. Himura Kenshin - Wikipedia

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    Kenshin is a former legendary assassin known as "Hitokiri Battōsai" (人斬り抜刀斎), [note 1] more properly named Himura Battōsai (緋村抜刀斎). At the end of the Bakumatsu , he becomes a wandering swordsman, now wielding a sakabatō ( 逆刃刀 , literally "reverse-blade sword") —a katana that has the cutting edge on the inwardly ...

  8. Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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    The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises into the air from the hypocenter.. Substantial debate exists over the ethical, legal, and military aspects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 respectively at the close of the Pacific War theater of World War II (1939–45).

  9. Iblis - Wikipedia

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    Tabarsi says that if Iblis were a jinni, he could not have been one of the custodians of paradise. [17]: 103 Many of those who say that Iblis was an angel read Surah 18:50 as a nisba for the term jannāt, thus referring to Iblis' heavenly origin (this reading is preferred by – among others – Ash'ari, [33]: 109 Suyuti, and Al-Tha'labi [1]).