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Takao Yoshida better known by his stage name TAKA Michinoku (TAKA is written in all caps in Japanese script), is a professional wrestler who has wrestled all over the world. Michinoku is skilled in high-flying, lucha libre, martial arts and technical wrestling.
Takaoka Ekimae Station The is a city tram station on the Takaoka KidĹŤ Line located in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. This tram stop was created in order to service the shopping area between Katahara-machi and Otaya Avenue, and to service JR West's Takaoka Station.
Takaono, Kagoshima Takaono (高尾野町; -chou) was a town located in Izumi District, Kagoshima, Japan. On March 13, 2006, the town merged with another town into the expanded city of Izumi and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Takapuna Grammar School Takapuna Grammar School is located near the suburb of Takapuna (but is adjacent to Belmont Primary and Belmont Intermediate in Belmont), in the North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand. It was established in 1927.
Takarabe, Kagoshima Takarabe (財部町; -chou) was a town located in Soo District, Kagoshima, Japan. On July 1, 2005 the town merged with two other towns forming the city of Soo and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Takarazuka Revue The Takarazuka Revue (宝塚歌劇団 Takarazuka Kagekidan) began in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan in 1913 founded by Ichizo Kobayashi, the president of Hankyu Railways, who had the idea to boost sales by staging Western-style musical shows using only young, unmarried women. The name of the troupe comes from the Hankyu Takarazuka Line in suburban Osaka.
Takasago stable Takasago stable (Japanese: 髙砂部屋 or 高砂部屋, Takasago-beya) is a stable of sumo wrestlers, one of the Takasago group of stables. It is correctly written in Japanese as 髙砂部屋, but the first of these kanji is rare, and is more commonly written 高砂部屋.
Takase, Kagawa Takase (高瀬町; -cho) was a town located in the former Mitoyo District, Kagawa, Japan. On January 1, 2006 the town merged with six other towns from the district forming the city of Mitoyo and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Takashi Fujii Takashi Fujii (Japanese: 藤井隆, Fujii Takashi, born March 10, 1972 in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese comedian and singer who belongs to the Japanese entertainment conglomerate Yoshimoto Kogyo and is the popular host of Matthew's Best Hit TV (as the character マシュー南, Mashū Minami or Matthew Minami) and various other related shows on TV Asahi, a major television network in Japan.
Takashi Futisawa Takahisi Futisawa is a Japanese ski jumper who competed during the 1960's. He won a silver medal in the individual large hill competition at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo, becoming the first Japanese to medal at the World Championships.
Takashi Hayase Admiral Takashi Hayase of the Macross series is also known as Admiral Donald Hayes in the English dubbed Robotech series. The Macross series saw him as being involved in the Rim Pac Alliance Force prior to becoming a high ranking admiral in the U.
Takashi Hikino Takashi Hikino is associate professor of industrial and business organization at the Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University where he teaches industrial organization, business economics, and corporate strategy, and comparative management.
Takashi Ishimoto Takashi Ishimoto (born April 6, 1935) is a retired butterfly swimmer from Japan, who won the silver medal in the men's 200m butterfly at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the late 1950s he broke the world record in the men's 100m butterfly several times.
Takashi Nagai Takashi Nagai (永井隆 Nagai Takashi, February 3, 1908 Matsue – May 1, 1951, Nagasaki) was a medical doctor, a convert to Catholicism, and a victim of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. His sentimental and religious take on the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, excogitated throughout his various writings on that city's atomic experience, earned him the affectionate title of the "Saint of Urakami" even before his death in 1951.
Takashi Sakai Takashi Sakai (酒井 隆 Sakai Takashi; October 18, 1887–September 30, 1946) was a Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He commanded the Japanese Army at the Battle of Hong Kong and was later captured and sentenced to death for war crimes.
Takashi Shiina Takashi Shiina (Shiina Takashi 椎名高志, born June 24, 1965) is a prominent mangaka in the weekly Shogakukan manga publication Weekly Shonen Sunday. When he started at the company in 1989, he began with an anthology of various shorts and one-shots collectively known as Shiina Department Store.
Takashi Shimoda Takashi Shimoda (born 28 November 1975) is a Japanese football goalkeeper who currently plays for Sanfrecce Hiroshima. He joined the team in 1994, became their first-choice goalkeeper in 1998 and has played there ever since.
Takashi Sorimachi Takashi Sorimachi (反町隆史, born NOGUCHI Takashi (野口 隆史), December 19, 1973 in Saitama, Saitama) is a Japanese actor and singer. He is mostly famous for having portrayed the assassin O in Hong Kong action film Fulltime Killer, and Eikichi Onizuka in the live-action drama adaptation of the popular manga series Great Teacher Onizuka.
Takashi Sugiura is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working for Pro Wrestling NOAH. Sugiura, an accomplished amateur wrestler, joined NOAH's dojo in 2000, making his pro debut on December 23, 2000, and thus becoming the first wrestler to make his pro wrestling debut in NOAH.
Takashi Takeuchi is a Japanese artist, noted as the co-founder of Japanese visual novel and anime development and production enterprise TYPE-MOON, and for his illustrations on TYPE-MOON's visual novels, Tsukihime and Fate/stay night, which were both later adapted into anime and manga series. He has frequently collaborated with his longtime friend and fellow TYPE-MOON co-founder, author Kinoko Nasu.
Takashi Thomas Yuda Takashi Thomas Yuda is a video game character designer, and has been working for Sega since 1990. He participated in Sega-produced Disney Sega Mega Drive/Genesis games, and has been part of the Sonic Team since the third installment of the series.
Takashi Yamamoto Takashi Yamamoto (born July 23, 1978) is an Olympic medal-winning swimmer from Japan, who won the silver medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was also part of Japan's bronze medal-winning 4 x 100 m medley relay team.
Takashi Yanase Takashi Yanase (やなせ たかし Yanase Takashi, born 1919) is the creator of the Japanese anime series Anpanman. This character, like many popular manga heroes, is extremely popular with children and is found on numerous products in Japan.
Takatāpui Takatāpui (also spelt takataapui) is the Māori word meaning a devoted partner of the same sex. In modern terminology, a person that identifies as takatāpui is a Māori individual that is queer, in other words gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender or transsexual.
Takatomi Nobunaga Takatomi Nobunaga (Japanese: 信長 貴富, Nobunaga Takatomi; born 1971) is a Japanese composer, principally of choral music. In 1994 he graduated from the Department of Education in the Faculty of Literature at Sophia University.
Takatori Catholic Church Takatori Catholic Church is a church building in Kobe, Japan using paper tubes as structural elements. It was designed by Shigeru Ban, internationally known Japanese architect who is famous for his paper tube structures and buildings.
Takavar Takavar is the term used for a type of Iranian special forces troops. The takavaran (plural of takavar) fall under the direct command of the regular Iranian Army (Artesh), while the Pasdaran have their own special forces called the Qods Force.
Takayama Chogyu ; (28 February 1871 – 24 December 1904), real name Takayama Rinjiro, was a Japanese author and literary critic. He profoundly influenced Japanese literature in the late Meiji period with his blend of romantic individualism, concepts of self-realization, aesthetics, and nationalism.
Takayuki Miyauchi is a Japanese vocalist best known for his work on theme songs for Tokusatsu and Anime. A resident of Ibaraki Prefecture, he began his career as founding member and lead vocalist of the band "WHY" in 1981 before making his solo debut in 1984, singing the opening theme for the "Super Sentai" Tokusatsu television series Choudenshi Bioman.
Takács Quartet The Takács Quartet is a world famous string quartet, founded in 1975 in Budapest, Hungary, by Gabor Takács-Nagy (first violin), Károly Schranz (second violin), Gabor Ormai (viola), and András Fejér (cello) while the four were students at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. The Takács Quartet is now based in Boulder, Colorado.
Take 30 Take 30 was a Canadian television newsmagazine series, which aired on CBC Television from 1962 to 1983. An afternoon series originally designed as a "women's show", the series gradually evolved into a showcase for serious journalism, airing documentary reports and interviews on social and cultural topics.
Take 5 The Take 5 (known as the Max 5 in Canada) is a pretzel, caramel, peanut and peanut butter-filled, milk chocolate coated candy bar released by The Hershey Company in December 2004. The "5" in the name refers the combination of five ingredients: milk chocolate, peanuts, caramel, peanut butter, and pretzels.
Take 5 (magazine) Take 5 is a weekly "real-life" magazine published by ACP Magazines in Australia. The magazine is released every Wednesday and features a variety of true stories submitted by readers and a pull-out puzzle book giving readers the chance to win a share in over $100,000 in cash and prizes each week.
Take a Bullet to the Grave/El Chupanebre (single) This is a double A-side single released by the Australian Ska band Sounds Like Chicken called Take a Bullet to the Grave/El Chupanebre. This is the second single released by the band and being a double A-side the first two songs of the album received good airplay on the radio station Triple J, along with some tracks of their debut album ...
Take a dump The phrase take a dump is mildly-vulgar slang describing the evacuation of excrement from the bowels through the anus. It derives primarily from one entry of the definition for the word dump, which is to “fling down or drop heavily or suddenly”.
Take a Look Around (song) "Take a Look Around" is the third single by rapcore, nu metal band Limp Bizkit from their third album Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water. This song was released as two singles, "Take A Look Around: Part 1" and "Take A Look Around: Part 2.
Take a Match Take a Match is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in Robert Silverberg's 1972 anthology New Dimentions II and reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories.
Take a plane Take a plane (or The train to Umbridge) is a party game that resembles Scissors in that some players know the "secret" of how the game actually works and the objective is for those who do not know this to work it out.
Take and bake pizzeria A take and bake pizzeria, sometimes just known as a take and bake (or alternatively, take-n-bake), is a pizzeria which sells uncooked pizzas to customers, who then cook the pizzas at home in their ovens. According to one competitor in the marketplace, take-and-bake is the fastest growing segment in the pizza industry in the United States.
Take as Needed for Pain Take as Needed for Pain is sludgecore band Eyehategod's sophomore album, released on November 22 1993. According to Mike Williams, it was the favourite album of nearly all band members, and his favourite album title, with the exception of Poison Ideas' Record Collectors are Pretentious Assholes.
Take A Look Inside Take a Look Inside is an album released by Melbourne based punk rock outfit Bodyjar. Recorded in 1994 at Sing Sing Studios in Richmond, Victoria, it was produced and engineered by two members of US legendary punk band Descendents, Bill Stevenson and Stephen Egerton.
Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up is a non-fiction work by former groupie Pamela Des Barres. Continuing where I'm With The Band left off, this book chronicles the ups and downs of her turbulent marriage to actor/singer Michael Des Barres, including their divorce.
Take Back the Night Take Back the Night (also known as Reclaim the Night) is an international march and rally intended as a protest and direct action against rape and other forms of violence against women, originated by the radical feminist movement.
Take Back The Memorial Take Back The Memorial is an organization which advocates keeping the memorial site of the World Trade Center in New York City focused on the memory of the victims who died there in the attacks of September 11, 2001. The group was part of a successful effort to defeat the International Freedom Center proposal.
Take Back The News Take Back The News is a non-profit organization which confronts the misrepresentation and underrepresentation of sexual assault in mainstream media with the goal of improving both the quantity and quality of media coverage of sexual assault. Take Back The News provides outlets for rape survivors to publish their stories in their own words.
Take Back Your Time Day Take Back Your Time Day, October 24, is a project of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy of Cornell University. In this annual observance, people are encouraged to carve out a little time for themselves, preferably spent with friends in congenial surroundings.
Take Care of My Cat Take Care of My Cat (고양이를 부탁해 goyangiruel butakhae) is a 2001 South Korean coming of age film. The movie is about the lives of a group of friends — five young women — a year after they graduate from high school, and the changes and difficulties they face in both their friendships and the world of work.
Take Five "Take Five" is a classic jazz piece first recorded by The Dave Brubeck Quartet and released on its 1959 album Time Out. Composed by Paul Desmond, the group's saxophonist, it became famous for its distinctive, catchy saxophone melody and use of quintuple time, from which the piece got its name.
Take Fo' Records Take Fo' Records is an independent record label from New Orleans which specializes in Bounce Music. DJ Jubilee is perhaps its best known artist, but the label has also released music by Willie Puckett (one of Jubillee's dancers), Katey Red, Big Al & Lil Tee, KC Redd, Tec-9 (formerly of group UNLV), and Junie Bezel.
Take Her, She's Mine Take Her, She's Mine is a 1963 movie comedy starring James Stewart and Sandra Dee. The film was written by Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron, and Nunnally Johnson, with Dee's character based on the then 22-year-old Nora Ephron, and directed by Henry Koster.
Take It Easy (Love Nothing) "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)" is a single by Bright Eyes, released in October 2004. It, along with "Lua" took the top two spots on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Sales chart, something that had not been accomplished since 1997 with the release of two songs with Puff Daddy (which were "I'll Be Missing You" featuring Faith Evans and Puff Daddy featured, with Mase, on the Notorious B.
Take It From Here Take It From Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced "tife") was a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960. It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols.
Take It How You Want It Take It How You Want It is the debut EP of Self Against City. A print run of 400 advance copies was released by 720 Records at one of the band's concerts at The Boardwalk in Orangevale, California on October 28 2004.
Take It to the Limit "Take It to the Limit" is a song by the Eagles from their fourth album, One of These Nights, and was written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and bassist Randy Meisner. The third single from the album, it was released on November 15, 1975 and went to #4 on the U.
Take Me (song) "Take Me" is the third and final single from Papa Roach's third album, Getting Away With Murder (2004), there was no video made for this single. Instead of the video, Papa Roach released the DVD Live & Murderous In Chicago.
Take Me Along Take Me Along is a musical based on the Eugene O'Neill play Ah, Wilderness that premiered October 22, 1959 at the Sam Shubert Theatre. It was directed by Peter Glenville and produced by David Merrick, with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill and book by Joseph Stein and Robert Russell
Take Me Away (Fefe Dobson song) Take Me Away was the second single from Fefe Dobson's debut album in Canada and the first single from Fefe Dobson's debut album in the rest of the world. It was a moderate success peaking at #7 on MTV's TRL countdown in 2003.
Take Me Back Take Me Back is a book written by Australian author Jethro Smith which was later made into a television series with Graham Harrington as Rupert Gudson and his off-screen/on-screen wife Jamelia Malteser. The series was designed to be a Buddy Comedy.
Take Me Back to Chicago Take Me Back to Chicago is one of two albums by the American Pop-Rock band Chicago that has been legitimately released within the United States on a label to whom they were under contract which does not fit into the general Roman Numeral numbering system of Chicago albums (from Chicago Transit Authority (as "I") through (at this writing) Chicago XXX. (The only other album being "If You Leave Me Now".
Take Me Down Take Me Down is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins, appearing on the band's 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Written and performed by James Iha, it is the final song on the "Dawn to Dusk" disc.
Take Me Higher Take Me Higher is a 1995 album by American soul singer Diana Ross released on the Motown label. The album featured production from urban adult contemporary producers such as Narada Michael Walden, Brenda Russell, Jon-John and the Boom Brothers, the latter two coming from Babyface's production company.
Take Me Home (Phil Collins song) "Take Me Home" is the 10th track on Collins' third solo album, No Jacket Required. The song features Collins' old Genesis band mate, Peter Gabriel as well as Sting (who also did backing vocals on the third track of No Jacket Required, "Long Long Way To Go") on backing vocals.
Take Me I'm Yours "Take Me I'm Yours" (1978) was the first of many hit singles by the New Wave rock band Squeeze. It established the band's trademark vocal style, with Chris Difford singing an octave lower than Glenn Tilbrook.
Take Me Out (song) "Take Me Out" is the breakthrough hit and second single from English/Scottish band Franz Ferdinand. It was released in the United Kingdom on the 12 January, 2004 and in the USA on 9 February, both through Domino Records.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is an early-20th century Tin Pan Alley song which became the unofficial anthem of baseball -- though neither of its authors had ever been to a game. The song is traditionally sung during the seventh-inning stretch of a baseball game, in spite of the technicality that it is written from the perspective of someone not currently watching a game.
Take Me to the Clouds Above Take Me To The Clouds Above is a pop / house song by LMC vs U2 that reached number 1 in the UK for two weeks in February 2004. The song incorporates elements of U2's "With or Without You" and Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know".
Take Me to Your Heaven Take Me to Your Heaven is a 1999 album from Swedish "dansband" Wizex. The album included Charlotte Nilsson's hit "Tusen och en natt/Take Me to Your Heaven", and the album sold 235 000 copies.
Take Me to Your Heaven (song) Take Me to Your Heaven was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 performed in English (taking advantage of the relaxation of the requirement to perform in a national language) by Charlotte Nilsson representing Sweden. Charlotte Nilsson first won the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1999 when singing the Swedish language version "Tusen och en natt".
Take Me to Your Leader (King Geedorah album) Take Me to Your Leader is the first full-length album released by Daniel Dumile under the alias 'King Geedorah'. Regarding the album, Dumile says, "You should listen to the album for what it is and not expect it to be like the average "Rap" stuff you’re probably used to.
Take One Take One was a popular Canadian film magazine which ran for approximately 12 years (1993-2005); it is frequently cited as the country's most important and influential film magazine, offering criticism and, most notably, contributions to the discourse of Canada as a filmmaking body.
Take point In modern military parlance, take point or to walk point is an idiom referring to assuming the first and most exposed position in a combat military formation, that is, the lead element advancing through hostile or unsecured territory.Céileachair, Daithí Ó (2005) "Language and Knives"; "Point" definition 30a & b The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.
Take that look off your face Take That Look Off Your Face is the title of a hit song by musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Collaborating with lyricist Don Black, it was written for the song cycle show Tell Me on a Sunday in 1978.
Take the A Train "Take the A Train" is a jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn, referring to the subway service that runs through New York City, going at that time from eastern Brooklyn up into Harlem and northern Manhattan, using the express tracks in Manhattan. It became the signature tune of Duke Ellington and often opened the shows of Ella Fitzgerald.
Take the Bullet Take the Bullet was a planned light gun video game for Sega Dreamcast from Red Lemon Studios. Unusually for its genre, it showed the character's weapon on screen as in a first-person shooter, had an optional third-person view and was slated to have both online and split-screen multiplayer modes.
Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World is a collection of essays by Sarah Vowell, that were originally published (by Simon & Schuster) in 2000. In it, she discusses everything from her obsession with "The Godfather", music lessons, and the intersection of Michigan and Wacker in Chicago, to her experience retracing her ancestors journey on the Trail of Tears and much more.
Take the High Road Take The High Road was a soap opera produced by SMG Productions (Scottish Television) and set in the fictional village of Glendarroch (exteriors were filmed in the real-life village of Luss on the banks of Loch Lomond). It started in 1980 as an ITV daytime soap opera, and was dropped by the network in 1992, although various members of the ITV Network (notably Central Television) continued to screen the programme, while others (such as Yorkshire Television and Carlton Television) had no interest in doing so.
Take Two (album) Take Two was a duet album by Motown label mates Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston, released August 25, 1966 on the Motown's Tamla label. The album was titled after its most successful selection, the Top 5 R&B/Top 20 Pop hit "It Takes Two", which was to this point Gaye's most successful duet with another singer.
Take Two (pricing game) Take Two is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on June 23, 1978’s episode (which was aired out of order on June 2), this game is played for four prizes, each worth between $500 and $3,000.
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" is a song by British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, and appears on their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). This was Roger Waters' debut song-writing credit, and features frantic guitar-work by Syd Barrett.
Take Yokouchi Take Yokouchi is a musician best known for his work with the Japanese glam rock band Vodka Collins. Take (pronounced Ta-kay) was originally a live touring guitar player for the popular teen idol band The Four Leaves.
Take Your Mama "Take Your Mama" is a song by American glam rock band Scissor Sisters and is the second track on their self-titled debut album (see 2004 in music). It was released March 29, 2004 as a single in the UK, peaking at #17 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2004 in British music).
Take Your Pick Take Your Pick was a game show aired in the UK from ITV's launch in 1955 until 1968, and again from 1992 to 1998. It was originally produced by Associated Rediffusion (later Rediffusion London), while the revival was made by Thames Television (whose arrival as the new London weekday ITV company ironically led to the original show's demise).
Take-grant protection model The take-grant protection model is a formal model used in the field of computer security to establish or disprove the safety of a given computer system that follows specific rules. It shows that for specific systems the question of safety is decidable in linear time, which is in general undecidable.
Take-out Take-out (in American and Canadian English), carry-out (in American English), kerry-oot (in Scottish English and Scots), parcel (in Indian English) or take-away (in Australian, Malaysian, and British English) is food purchased at a restaurant but eaten elsewhere. The restaurant may or may not provide table service.
Take-the-best heuristic According to the take-the-best heuristic, when making a judgment based on multiple criteria, the critieria are tried one at a time according to their cue validity, and a decision is made based on the first criterion which discriminates between the alternatives.
Takeda Awards The Takeda Foundation, is an organisation based in Japan. In 2001 it launched an annual awards program, which presented awards accompanied by 100 million yen under the categories social/economic well-being, individual/humanity well-being, and world environmental well-being.
Takeda clan (Aki) The Takeda clan of Aki province were related to that of the famed Takeda family of Kai, as well as the Takeda of Wakasa. The Takeda clan of Aki were very powerful in their region up until the late years of the 12th century.
Takeda Nobuhiro no Super Cup Soccer Takeda Nobuhiro no Super Cup Soccer is an international football (soccer) game by Jaleco for the Super Famicom that allows players to compete for the Super Cup either with or against Takeda Nobuhiro, the greatest football player in all of Japan. There are teams from Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and even Asia.
Takeda Nobuchika Takeda Nobuchika (武田信親, also known as Unno Nobuchika, 海野信親; 1541-1582) a meant-to-be retainer of the Japanese clan of Takeda during the Sengoku period (16th century) of Japan. Nobuchika had been the second son of the famed Takeda Shingen.
Takeda Nobutora (1493–1574) was a Japanese daimyo (feudal lord) who controlled the Province of Kai, and fought in a number of battles of the Sengoku period. He was the father of the famous Takeda Shingen, who was originally named Harunobu, along with two other sons, Nobushige and Nobukado.
Takeda Shingen (December 1, 1521 – May 13, 1573) of Shinano and Kai Provinces, was a preeminent daimyo or feudal lord with military prestige who sought for the control of Japan in the late stage of Sengoku or "warring states" period.
Takeda Yoshinobu Takeda Yoshinobu (武田義信: 1538–November 19, 1567) was the eldest son and heir of Takeda Shingen, a daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history during the 16th century. His mother was Lady Sanjo.
Takedown (grappling) A takedown is a martial arts and combat sports term for a technique that involves off-balancing an opponent and forcing him or her to the ground, typically with the combatant performing the takedown landing on top. The process of quickly advancing on an opponent and attempting a takedown is known as shooting for a takedown, or simply shooting.
Takehiko Fujii Takehiko Fujii, who composes under the aliases SLAKE, SPARKER, SPAKER, CALF, Todonosuke Tometarou, GARIBEN KEN, JET GIRL SPIN, and shinpei, is a Bemani musician primarily known for his quirky style of music. He composes mainly for the beatmania series, but has also composed for other Bemani games.
Takehito Harada is an artist employed by Nippon Ichi whose art has been featured in video games such as Disgaea, Phantom Brave, and Makai Kingdom. His art style has been described as "crazy and bizarre" and features everything from cute pre-teen demons, to freaky pigs in royal clothing.
Takeichi Nishi Baron Takeichi Nishi (西　竹一) (July 12 1902 - March 22 1945) was a Japanese Imperial Army officer, equestrian show jumper, and Olympic Gold Medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. He was a tank commander at the Battle of Iwo Jima, and was killed in action there.
Takeji Tomita Takeji Tomita (富田武治 Tomita Takeji), born 1942-02-03 in Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese aikido teacher who since the 1960s lives in Sweden. He teaches in his own dojo in Stockholm, Aikido Dojo Stockholm, as well as in others in Sweden and around the world.
Takelma The Takelma (also Dagelma) were a Native American people that lived in the Rogue Valley of interior southwest Oregon, with most of their villages sited along the Rogue River. The name Takelma means (Those) Along the River.
Takelot II Hedjkheperre Setepenre Takelot II Si-Ese served as a Twenty-Third Dynasty pharaoh of Ancient Egypt in Middle and Upper Egypt (840 – 815 BC). He has been identified as the High Priest of Amun Takelot F, son of the High Priest of Amun Nimlot C at Thebes and, thus, the grandson of Osorkon II according to the latest academic research.
Takelot III Usimare Setepenamun Takelot III Si-Ese was Osorkon III's eldest son and successor. Takelot III ruled the first five years of his reign in a coregency with his father and served previously as the High Priest of Amun at Thebes.

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