Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor DSO OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977).
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Biography of Funakoshi Gichin Funakoshi Gichin, a master of karate from Okinawa, was born in the city of Shuri. He was an extraordinary man, highly educated and literarily inclined, but his main focus was hand-to-hand combat. It was at his initiative that a group of masters traveled around Okinawa for several years from , giving demonstrations.
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After the outbreak of the Civil War, on May 14, , he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 5th New York, and saw action at the Battle of Bethel Church (also known as Big Bethel) in Virginia on June For his actions during the battle, he was promoted to colonel of the regiment in August of
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