Eight Skilled Gentlemen is a novel by Barry Hughart, first published in 1990. It is the third, and final, part of a series set in a version of ancient...

Award in 1986, followed by The Story of the Stone in 1988 and Eight Skilled Gentlemen in 1990. He intended to write seven novels about the adventures...

ancient China that began with Bridge of Birds and continues with Eight Skilled Gentlemen. The story begins on the twelfth day of the seventh moon in the...

Number Ten Ox books (Bridge of Birds, The Story of the Stone and Eight Skilled Gentlemen). The pig originates in Chinese mythology: "Cattle are under the...

award-winning novels Bridge of Birds, The Story of the Stone, and Eight Skilled Gentlemen, is named after kaoliang; his mother died in childbirth while requesting...

Hughart's sequels to Bridge of Birds, The Story of the Stone and Eight Skilled Gentlemen, were reprinted in 2002 in a single hardcover volume called The...

officers; to these were added several honorary midshipmen—so-called "young gentlemen" who aspired to naval careers. They signed on the ship's roster as able...

and the spectators called them "Galata Sarayı efendileri" (English: "Gentlemen of Galata Palace"), and, after this incident, they adopted that name and...

supernatural power Hamon like his grandfather, Joseph is not initially as skilled in its use until he trains under Lisa Lisa. He initially uses a pair of...

ranks and a conventionally recognized social divide between gentlemen and non-gentlemen. Royal Navy ships were led by commissioned officers of the wardroom...

gifted an old muzzle-loading shotgun at the age of eight. With these weapons, he grew more skilled at hunting and tracking animals. After surviving a...

Oxford University. Society insisted that such people were "officers and gentlemen" whose destiny was to provide leadership. In a purely financial sense...

solo number-one on the Hot 100 among eight other countries. Described by The Wall Street Journal as "a skilled technical rapper with a strong melodic...

six of his companions. In the afternoon Ribault crossed over with eight gentlemen and was entertained by Menéndez. The French accepted some wine and...

Colorado). According to the pamphlet, Beale was the leader of a group of 30 gentlemen adventurers from Virginia who stumbled upon the rich mine of gold and...

Hyvät herrat (Good Gentlemen) is a Finnish political satire series produced between 1990 and 1996. The series was shown in 1990–1992 on Kolmoskanava and...

bodyguard of Yeomen of the Guard and the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, or "gentlemen pensioners", and a few locally raised companies to garrison...

Christian had become a skilled navigator. Christian was willing to serve on Bounty without pay as one of the "young gentlemen"; Bligh gave him one of...

involved in the war. (Conscription was also applied "in reverse", so that skilled workers and craftsmen who had volunteered early in the war could be drafted...

ProQuest 1243009796; "California Quits New York's Fair; Failure to Keep 'Gentlemen's Agreement' to Participate in Coast Show Charged". The New York Times...

from the rich and gave to the poor. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is depicted as...

initial crude sleds were developed almost accidentally—as bored well-to-do gentlemen naturally took to intramural competition in the streets and byways of...

Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), The Thing from Another World (1951), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959). His frequent portrayals of...

metal band Volbeat performs the song "Doc Holliday" on their album Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies. Swedish power metal band Civil War performs the song "Tombstone"...

desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study". Some 20 years later, Bach compiled a second book of the...

is a very tall (nearly 7 feet (2.1 m)) and strong northern barbarian, skilled at both swordsmanship and singing. The Mouser is a small (not much more...

needed] They are an effective fishing vessel because, when powered by a skilled person, they hardly disturb the water or the fish, and they can be easily...

between DC Comics and Boom! Studios. Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is littered with oblique references to events and characters in The Avengers...

salary increases, bonuses, and prizes. Individual scientists, seen as skilled workers and as employees of their institutions, were expected to work as...

Civil War. Adams Press. ISBN 978-0-9623292-5-8. Gray, Ralph D (1977). Gentlemen from Indiana: National Party Candidates,1836–1940. Indiana Historical...