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Knight (disambiguation)

Knight is a social position and honour originating in the Middle Ages.

Knight may also refer to:

Places

  • Knight, United States Virgin Islands, a settlement on the island of Saint Croix
  • Knight, Wisconsin, a town in the US
  • Knight Inlet, British Columbia, Canada
  • Knight Islands, Nunavut, Canada
  • Organisms

  • Knight butterfly, the species Lebadea martha
  • Knight mushrooms, the genus Tricholoma
  • People

  • Pseudonym of Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) English statesman
  • In fiction

  • Knight (comics), two DC Comics superheroes
  • The Knight (novel), a fantasy novel by Gene Wolfe
  • Knight, a fictional character in the Duel Masters television show
  • Jedi Knight, a rank between Padawan and Master in Star Wars
  • Other

  • Knight (chess), a piece in the game of chess
  • Knight (surname)
  • Knight Capital Group, a global financial services firm
  • Knight's Armament Company, an American firearms manufacturer
  • Knight (Dungeons & Dragons), a character class in the roleplaying game
  • Playing cards, may be:
  • The Knight (The Canterbury Tales)

    The Knight from the Canterbury tales was a soldier for the king who fought in many battles and jousts. He usually fought in battles to different countries to try convert the whole nation to Christianity. The main goal for these Crusades at that time were to recapture Holy Land from the Muslims. His social standing, along with his son, The Squire, was high due to their aristocracy. As explained before, The Knights duty as the kings servant was leading large crusades to defeat people from non-Christian lands. Although we seem to know that the Knight is one of the most likable characters in the story, Chaucer fails to tell us about the Knights origins or why he became a knight to begin with. Nevertheless, The Knight still has a lasting good impression on first time readers. In this day and age, The Knight would be a soldier serving his country instead of serving his king.

    Prologue

    The Narrator begins his in depth explanation of each character with the Knight. In lines 43-47, the narrator tells us the knight is chivalrous and valiant, and an honorable and noble servant to his king. Line 55 tells us the Knight was a great warrior. Lines 67-72 tells us he was the perfect knight and even though he was playing a "villain's part", he always did right. In lines 72-78, the Narrator tells us that the Knights attire, although having a beautiful horse, wasn't the best. He had on an old tunic and rusty coat of mail due to all his expeditions. The Narrator couldn't stress it enough that the Knight was just the perfect gentleman; he was valiant, honorable, gentle, giving, truthful and courteous. The language of English has changed a lot from the Middle Ages to now as seen from the many variations and translations of the Canterbury tales. For example, chivalry was spelled chivalrie, knight was spelled kynght, Russia was spelled Rucen, Christian was spelled Cristen and the Mediterranean Sea was known as the Grete Sea.

    The Knight (novel)

    The Knight is a fantasy novel written by American author Gene Wolfe depicting the journey of an American boy transported to a magical realm and aged to adulthood who soon thereafter becomes a knight. The first of a two-part tale know collectively as The Wizard Knight is told in an epistolary style, and contains elements from Norse, Arthurian, and Christian Mythology. It received a nomination for the Nebula Award in 2005.

    Plot summary

    The story opens with an older narrator recounting a great adventure. He is left alone in a cabin in the wilderness by himself for a few days. He goes for a hike and ends up chasing a flying castle he sees in the sky until he is abducted by "a lot of people". He awakens to find himself at the mouth of a cave by the sea. He is greeted by a fortune teller who calls him Able of the High Heart and turns his walking stick into a bow. He soon after discovers his chivalrous destiny and embarks on a quest to travel this strange new land.


    Baku

    Baku (Azerbaijani: Bakı, IPA: [bɑˈcɯ]) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal parts: the downtown area and the old Inner City (21.5 ha). At the beginning of 2009, Baku's urban population was estimated at just over two million people. Officially, about 25 percent of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area.

    Baku is divided into eleven administrative districts (raions) and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on islands in the Baku Bay and the town of Oil Rocks built on stilts in the Caspian Sea, 60 km (37 mi) away from Baku. The Inner City of Baku along with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. According to the Lonely Planet's ranking, Baku is also among the world's top ten destinations for urban nightlife.

    Ōbaku

    The Ōbaku-shū (黄檗宗) is one of several schools of Zen in Japanese Buddhism, in addition to Sōtō and Rinzai.

    History

    Often termed the third sect of Zen Buddhism in Japan, it was established in 1661 by a small faction of masters from China and their Japanese students at Manpuku-ji in Uji, Japan.

    Today Manpuku-ji serves as the Ōbaku's head temple, with 420 subtemples spread throughout Japan as of 2006. In addition to their contribution to the culture of Zen in Japan, the Ōbaku also "disseminated many aspects of Ming-period culture" in the country. Many of the monks who came from China were accomplished calligraphers, and Obaku's founder Yinyuan Longqi and two other Ōbaku masters, Mokuan Shōtō and Sokuhi Nyoitsu, became known as the Ōbaku no Sanpitsu (or, the "Three Brushes of Ōbaku"). Author Steven Heine writes, "Areas where the influence of — or the reaction to — Ōbaku left an imprint on Japanese Buddhism is manifold, and its impact even reached the fields of Japanese cultural techniques, such as printing and painting.Chinese medicine and architecture were also introduced, as was the practice of "spirit writing", the latter practiced by Ōbaku monks who were said to communicate with Chen Tuan.

    Soviet destroyer leader Baku

    Baku (Russian: "Баку") was a Soviet Red Banner destroyer leader of the Leningrad class (she was reclassfied as a destroyer in 1949). She was built by Dalzavod in Komsomolsk na Amure. The ship was laid down on 15 January 1935 as Kiev. On 27 December 1939, the vessel was renamed Sergo Ordzhonikidze and on 25 September 1940, Baku. The ship was launched on 25 July 1938 and attached to the 1st Division of destroyers of the Pacific Fleet. In 1942 Baku was transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet via the Arctic Ocean.

    During World War II Baku travelled over 42,000 miles. On 6 March 1945 her crew was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

    References

  • Breyer, Siegfried (1992). Soviet Warship Development: Volume 1: 1917-1937. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-604-3. 
  • Roger Chesneau, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. 
  • Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2. 
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    The Knight

    by: Heart Of Cygnus

    No love for useless talk
    Nor sleep or excess pleasure
    He lives to train, enduring pain
    His master's word, his measure
    Early morning sunrise finds him
    on the fencing grounds
    Pursuing quick precision
    until mastery is found
    And those who ride
    Must follow in the way
    Of the Knight and Nobleman
    For those who fight
    Have already layed down their lives
    He knows no will but sovereignty
    His honor knows no price
    His heart is love and loyalty
    His body knows no vice
    Ready as the dawn breaks
    or as even fades to night
    His heart prepared for battle
    And his hands, prepared to fight
    And those who ride
    Must follow in the way
    Of the Knight and Nobleman
    For those who fight




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