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The Japanese have always been highly evolved and smart,they lost the battle but won the war,so to speak.As for the Muslim religion,there are some good people and bad,like everywhere,but I have maintained for years that they are fundamentally different from most cultures,and if the whole world was Muslim,they would still find a reason to fight among themselves.

I have seen that email questioned before. This is all I could find:-


http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/09/21/bni-response-to-the-viral-email-re-islam-and-japan/

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VANDAL
   
Destructive person.    
None of the Germanic tribes left behind any written history, so the    
only details about them come mainly from the Romans, who painted    
them all as savages. However, they were in the main a great deal    
more sivilized and compassionate than the Romans, who reserved    
particular ire for the Vandals, whose name originally meant    
"Wanderers," as they had the temerity to march into Rome in AD 455    
and sack the city. However, they were there by imperial invitation.    
The Roman Emperor Valentinian I11 was in negotiation with    
Gaiseric, the Vandal king, to bring his lands and peoples back into the    
Roman fold; Valentinian even offered his daughter's hand in marriage    
to one of Gaiseric's sons, Huneric. No sooner was everything settled    
than Valentinian was murdered in a coup, prompting his widow,    
Licinia Eudoxia, to write to Gaiseric, pleading with him to come to    
Rome and rescue her and her daughters. Unfortunately he sacked the    
city while he was at it. The ladies returned to Carthage with Gaiseric    
where one of the daughters, Eudocia, did indeed marry Huneric as    
originally planned.    

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NUMBER IS UP, YOUR    
Impending trouble or death.    
This seems to have two parents. Nineteenth-century admirals used    
to summon selected captains of their fleet to conferences on their    
flagsbigs by hoisting their ships' numbers in semaphore; this    
invariably meant that action was not far off. Also, British Army    
miscreants had to line up outside the CO's (Commanding Officer's)    
office to be called in by their service number to be informed of their    
punishment. The expression moved into general use at the beginning    
of World War I.    

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CLOSE RANKS
    
Present a united front.    
The concentrated and rhythmic firepower of the British Army    
in either its square or Its three-tiered line was as methodical as it    
was lethal. Naturally there were casualties sustained by such a    
presentation, and from time to time the above order would be given,    
requiring the ranks to close up over their own dead to reconsolidate    
the line. First noted in print in the mid-17th century, in recent    
times the expression has taken on conspiratorial overtones    
and is more often heard to describe thg united wall of silence    
presented by a professional body when being questioned about    
ethical procedures.    

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         GRINGO
   
   Any non-Hispanic in Mexico.    
   The great fiction attached to 'gringo" maintains that American    
   troops marching down to the Mexican-American War (1846-48)    
   loved to sing "Green Grow the Rushes-0," prompting Mexicans to    
   construct 'kringo" from the first two words of the title. Another folk    
   etymology ties the birth of the term to green coats worn by American    
   troops at the time, which caused hostile Mexican civilians to chant    
   "Greens go home!" or an equivalent phrase. In fact, the term had    
   been in use in Spanish since the early 18th century; only its    
   appearance in English coincided with the Mexican-American War,    
   which explains the rash of stories trying to pin it to that conflict.    
   The Castillian Dictionary (1787) by Esteban de Terreros explains    
a    that the term was used in Malaga for any non-Spaniard, while in    
   Madrid it was specific to the influx of Irish; either way, both    
   applications rested on the established phrase hablar en griego, "to    
   speak in Greek," which most Spanish languages used to describe    
   anyone talking rubbish or nonsense. English has its own parallel in    
   "It's all Greek to me!" TARTAR    

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MONEY
   
Currency    
In 390 BC the Gauls attacked the city of Rome itself. In a night-time    
offensive, the Gauls tried to sneak up the walls, but they had    
neglected to abandon their wooden overshoes; they were so noisy    
that the guard-geese of the temple of Juno raised the alarm and the    
Roman Guard turned out to send the barbarians on their way. The    
goddess Juno was rewarded with the new title of Moneta, "she who    
warns:' and the geese were sacrificed and served up at a celebratory    
feast. From 269 BC Moneth temple was used to house the Roman    
mint, and the currency produced there was named after her; the    
variant spelling, Mynet, evolved into "mint."    
The use of geese as "guard dogs" is still common; there is a large    
flock on the night shift at Ballantine's main Glasgow depot, which    
holds 240 million liters of maturing whisky.    

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COLD FEET
   
Fear or apprehension before an event.    
Properly called Immersion Syndrome, trench foot was rife among    
the World War I troops in northern France and was caused by long    
periods of standing around in cold and muddy water. Painful and    
debilitating it may have been but it was a sure ticket to the hospital,    
and those with a strong aversion to being shot at would endure    
the condition until just before a major offensive, reporting to the    
medical officer at the last minute.    
The condition was first noted during Napoleon's failed Moscow    
campaign of 1812 and his subsequent retreat. Once back in France, a    
paper describing the disease was published by Army Surgeon-in-Chief,    
Baron Larrey, the man who invented the ambulance. AMBULANCE    

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COHORT
   
Disreputable associate.    
After arriving in 15th-century English, "cohort" moved a long way    
from its original meaning in the Roman Army, wherein a legion    
comprised ten cohorts of up to 600 men. Each Roman cohort was a    
self-contained unit, so when the term entered English it first applied    
to a walled garden or self-contained enclosure, such as a court, before    
"hort" went its own way in the early-mid 18th century to survive in    
terms such as "horticulture."    
By the late 18th century, the term was being used of any closed    
L or cloistered group with its own hidden agenda, and the final nail    
in the coffin was hammered home in 20th-century America, where    
the word was increasingly applied to disreputable associates after    
evangelical preachers took to referring to the forces of evil as "Satan    
and his cohorts."    

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PITCHED BATTLE
    
Major conflict.    
Sixteenth-century military communications consisted of a man on    
a horse with little idea of where he was heading. It was not unknown    
for armies to stamp around the countryside for days looking for    
the opposition, who were also marching around in circles trying    
to find the enemy. To avoid this confusion, important battles    
were formally arranged and "pitched at a specific venue on a date    
sufficiently far in advance to ensure that the combatants had plenty    
of time to prepare.    
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POINT BLANK

   
Straight-talking; popularly, very close range.    
The expression is more common in America employed in the first    
application -"I told him point blank what he could do with his job."    
Perhaps the recent wave of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television    
programs has done much to cement the second meaning that a shot    
taken at point blank range is one fired from a couple of feet away.    
Originallypoint blanc, the French for "aim at the white," this was    
born of late medieval archery targets, when the bull's eye was white.    
Ah archer standing close enough to the target to hit the bull without    
anv elevation would literally point (straight at the) blanc. In gunnery    
it was more complicated. Cannon barrels tapered to the muzzle,    
so the bore sat elevated even in a gun laid to the horizontal, and the    
recoil would add an extra "flick." All ballistic projectiles travel in an    
arc, so when fired, the shot rises to what is called the "point-blank    
primary" before its arc takes it below that line to the "point blank    
secondary"; the distance between these is the point blank range.    
"Point blank range" is thus a variable; in modern artillery it can be    
anything up to a mile and in firearms up to perhaps 250yds.    

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DUMMY RUN
   
Practice or rehearsal.    
Bombers used to practice with dummy bombs, and submariners' drill    
included torpedo practice with dummy warheads. Some sources like    
to maintain that "dry ryn" was born of bench-tested torpedoes, but    
that expression was used by 19th-century American fire brigades for    
a drill without any water in the pumps and tenders.    

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ESCAPE
   
Elude danger.    
This emerged back in the days of capes and swordplay, when there    
were no rules of engagement and anything went: backstabbing,    
spitting, biting, and so on. Getting a good grip on an opponent's    
cape to tug them off balance was a favorite maneuver that could only    
be countered by that person slipping out of their cape to safety.    
"Escape" derived from such terms as the Italian scappare (ex cappa,    
"out of the cape") which is also the likely progenitor of "scarper," a    
British slang term meaning "to run away."    

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FACE THE MUSIC
    
Accept punishment.    
When any European or American officer is cashiered, from the    
French casser,"to break," he is required to face the regimental drum-    
squad while the reasons for his dismissal are read out for all to hear.    
He must continue to face the (drum) music, which then alters to a    
somber tattoo, while his sword is broken and the buttons are torn    
from his uniform. At this point the rhythm changes to the infamous    
"Rogue's March" to accompany the broken officer as he takes the    
walk of shame across the parade ground. This is the derivation of the    
expression "drummed out,'' first noted in print outside military circles    
in 1766,while "face the music" was adopted in the UK in the 1880s    
from American usage in the same context.    

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FIRST RATE
   
Top class.    
First rate, second rate, and third rate were originally classes of British    
warships as defined in 1677 by Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) during    
his stint as First Secretary to the Admiralty. First-rate warships carried    
100 guns and about 800 men; second-rate warships carried 82 guns    
and 530 men; and third-rate warships carried 74 guns and 460 men.    
The ratings continued as far down as sixth rate, which described    
warships with perhaps 30 guns and around 60 men. By extension, the    
terms came to be applied to people or things by the early 1680s.    

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FULL TILT
 
Maximum speed.    
Yomping across rough terrain on a horse while holding an 8-foot pole    
at the horizontal was not a sensible option for knights in combat.    
Instead, they held their lances upright until closing with their    
opponent at top speed, at which point the lance would be lowered,    
or tilted, down to use. The phrase "full tilt" thus came to mean "full    
speed" in a metaphorical sense.