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The Internet was deemed an appropriate venue for publication because the medium is easily accessed, quickly updated, and widely available. The chronological format was selected because it provided a convenient way for storing what were otherwise unrelated factoids.
Correcting Mistakes
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in. This will take you to a very large file of text. To find your topic,
press CTRL-F and follow the directions to search for key words. Remember
that this encyclopedia reflects how the editor thinks rather than how anyone
else thinks. Therefore events and people may appear in unexpected places.
So it may be worth your while to run your key word searches through multiple
volumes rather than just one.
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Occasionally you will encounter links. These will lead you to footnotes, glossary terms, photographs, or other web resources. Feel free to send us links to additional web sites, but unless we really like the site or you become a sponsor the only links we are likely to post are ones maintained by universities, museums, and other public agencies.
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We don't plan to get a lot more complex than this at the moment. Feel free to get lost in the data and make your own serendipitous discoveries.
Rather than listing everything one should read, this bibliography
lists only published sources that were consulted during the preparation
of this chronology.
Since there are only so many hours in the day, there are many glaring omissions, not the least of which is the fact that almost every text listed was read in English. If you'd like to hear our excuses, drop us a line. Meanwhile, if you believe that some seminal work was omitted, by all means feel free to send us review copies.
Some of the information was obtained via e-mail or other personal
correspondence. Although we could list the people who helped this way,
we thought maybe it was better if we didn't, as that way these nice people
couldn't be blamed for our mistakes. Their assistance is, however, acknowledged
and greatly appreciated.
When transcribing, I generally omitted macrons. My reasoning was that since I don't speak the language, using macrons to show my erudition was being unnecessarily pretentious.
Chinese words are transliterated using Wade-Giles rather than Pinyin. While this does not meet United Nations standards, I don't read Chinese so am mostly writing names as I find them in old texts. If someone wants to put them into Pinyin for me, let me know and we'll include those spellings, too.
Finally, names are listed as the people themselves use them. For
example, Japanese names are listed family name personal name (Smith John)
while English names are listed personal name family name (John Smith).
If this causes serious consternation let me know and I'll do something
such as capitalize all family names (SMITH John). However, I'd prefer to
avoid that as I find it visually clutters the page.
Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/catalog/booksquery.html
Archery
http://margo.student.utwente.nl/sagi/artikel/
European swordsmanship
www.aemma.org
www.thehaca.com
Japanese martial arts
http://www.furyu.com
http://www.koryubooks.com
Western boxing
http://members.tripod.com/bawli/index.html
http://cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/cyber.htm
Professional wrestling
http://www.twc-online.com/MINISITE/WAWLI
To access the United States' Library of Congress' catalog, go to http://lcweb2.loc.gov/catalog/booksquery.html. The equivalent British Library site is http://portico.bl.uk/index.html. Obviously, "Search the collection" is the best you can do online.
For world maps, try http://anthro.org/mapfind.htm. The University of Texas at Austin site is particularly useful.
For US photographs, try the National Archives at http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html.
If you have suggestions for equally useful sources, please let
us know.
Areas for which we're seeking equally competent sources of information include:
African martial arts
Ancient martial arts
Capoeira
Central Asian martial arts
Chinese martial arts
Filipino martial arts
Islamic martial arts
Korean martial arts
Native American martial arts
Southeast Asian martial arts
Turkic/Indo-Pakistani martial arts
Send your suggestions to the editors.