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  2. Seppuku - Wikipedia

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    Voluntary death by drowning was a common form of ritual or honour suicide. [citation needed] The religious context of thirty-three Jōdo Shinshū adherents at the funeral of Abbot Jitsunyo in 1525 was faith in Amida Buddha and belief in rebirth in his Pure Land, but male seppuku did not have a specifically religious context. [28]

  3. 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".

  4. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

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    — Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Palestinian leader and fighter (8 April 1948), in a note to Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam written shortly before his death during the Battle of Qastal "I'm going over the valley." [16] [178] — Babe Ruth, American baseball player (16 August 1948) "I'll need it." [3]

  5. Those women longed for the touch of others' lips, and thus ...

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    According to character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the original story for the series did not feature Lilith, but was included following the premiere of the series and some staff research performed on Christianity; [18] Sadamoto stated that Lilith's inclusion occurred because "not touching [her] seemed to hurt Anno's pride".

  6. Naruto: Shippuden season 20 - Wikipedia

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    Shisui's superiors are glad that no one got hurt, despite the fight not being a part of the exercise. Shisui tends to a small injury of Itachi's, who still needs to get used to delay between his Sharingan's perception and his reaction time. Shisui takes Itachi back to the Uchiha compound, and the two talk about the events of the day.

  7. Hundred man killing contest - Wikipedia

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    The hundred man killing contest (百人斬り競争, hyakunin-giri kyōsō) was a newspaper account of a contest between Toshiaki Mukai (3 June 1912 – 28 January 1948) and Tsuyoshi Noda (1912 – 28 January 1948), two Japanese Army officers serving during the Japanese invasion of China, over who could kill 100 people the fastest while using a sword.

  8. Geology of the Death Valley area - Wikipedia

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    Little is known about the history of the oldest exposed rocks in the area due to extensive metamorphism.This somber, gray, almost featureless crystalline complex is composed of originally sedimentary and igneous rocks with large quantities of quartz and feldspar mixed in. [1] The original rocks were transformed to contorted schist and gneiss, making their original parentage almost unrecognizable.

  9. Grave of the Fireflies - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, he says that his decision to show the audience that Seita and Setsuko have died at the beginning of the movie is to protect the audience from heartbreak, "If an audience knows at the beginning of the film that the two will eventually die, they are more prepared to watch the film in the first place.