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Not particularly. While it is, in part, derived from European sword fighting, there are also dashes of Chinese sword theatrics (Wushu) along with exaggerated and dramatic moves designed to film well. As with hand-to-hand martial arts, actual real life fighting is a lot faster, direct and brutal. The downside is that these methods don't film well. You might ...

This pyramid building civilization has many similarities to both the ancient Egyptian civilization and also to the civilizations of Mesopotamia (which you probably mean with Persian-like). From those two the latter is/are actually a bit older and marks the beginning of city building. But nevertheless such large buildings as the Egytian pyramids or the ...

Your parallel is slightly off. It's not Biko that Wikus is related to but Biko's friend, Donald Woods from "Cry Freedom". Both Wikus and Woods were initially of the governing race, and both started with adversarial relationship to Biko/alien known as Christopher Johnson, only later to turn into friends.

According to all-knowing Wikipedia (smile): In the end, authorities pointed out that the chances of the prisoners surviving the trip across the bay were slim. At the time, there was no discovery of robberies or car thefts that could have been attributed to them, and the men were habitual criminals yet were never arrested again. The FBI officially ...

Gladiator fights have a long cultural and political history. Originally they were held on a smaller scale (than the Colosseum) and often for the purpose of honoring a deceased. Their popularity grew as the rich began to see how they could further their standing with the people. The gladiators themselves were often killed or severely injured, making it less ...

I'm going to attribute it to the most powerful force in the universe -- Plot. It's a way to represent communication between Leonidas and Gorgo as well as a mechanism to 'pass the baton' to his son. I shall further speculate that it was worn as a braid rather than a necklace so as not to interfere with visual of a ripped and oily Gerard Butler jumping and ...

You've got good questions, but the answers are easily found with a little research. One mustn't go farther than Wikepedia.org to find answers. In Indiana, when Lincoln was nine, his mother Nancy died of milk sickness in 1818. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln Frederick Douglass was Lincoln's "black friend". ...

I found this mention on a historical website called the Cleaveland Civil War Roundtable: One mob looted and burned a block of elegant houses on Lexington Avenue near Forty-Sixth Street; another set fire to the draft office on Broadway near Twenty-Ninth Street. Other rioters extorted money or liquor from merchants or saloonkeepers. When detectives heard ...

No, the movie is based on the 1957 novel "South of the Heart: a novel of modern Arabia" by Hans Ruesch. As far as I could find out the novel is not depicting any actual events or wars. The principalities "Hobeika" and "Salmaah" did not actually exist, and the conflict between them is unlikely to be based on a real one according to this german historical ...

If the therapy in question is Electroconvulsive therapy, then yes, it is highly possible that children were given this treatment. Despite the fact that ECT was allegedly phased out during the 60's and 70's, the treatment continued to be administered, and even gained a little popularity around 20 years ago due to its effectiveness.

This review says no. While, during the war, Ip Man did indeed refuse to teach his martial arts to the military police of the occupying Japanese - a decision which eventually forced him to flee Foshan - he certainly never had, let alone won, a duel with a Japanese general (played in the film by Hiroyuki Ikeuchi). They do not cite a source for that ...

I think the Spartans were way more brutal than it was depicted in the show. Because, the majority of the things depicted are true i,e the characters personalities and all of the battles and stuff, as I can believe, but it's not historically accurate as far as i know. Because it is focused on the lives of merchants and slaves, and low level magistrates ...

It is worth bearing in mind that single handed swords did little against plate armour, they did little against maille and padding unless you landed a good solid thrust. Curved swords have almost no affect against solid armour too. I have suits of maille and plate and regualarly fight in tounrments wearing them. We have fought at full power with swords and ...