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Waukesha School District The School District of Waukesha is a school district which serves the City of Waukesha as well as parts of the Town of Waukesha, Town of Brookfield and City of Pewaukee in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It is located fifteen miles west of Milwaukee.
Waulking song Waulking songs (Scots Gaelic: Orain Luaidh) are Scottish folk songs, traditionally sung by women while waulking cloth. This practice involved a group of people beating newly woven tweed rhythmically against a table or similar surface to soften it.
Waunfawr railway station Waunfawr is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1877 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking to carry dressed slate to Dinas Junction on the LNWR. Passenger services ceased on 26 September 1936 and the station was reopened on 7 August 2000 following the complete reconstruction of the railway from Dinas to Waunfawr.
Wauseon, Ohio Wauseon is a city in Fulton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 7,091 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Fulton County, and was named after Wauseon, a Potawatomi who lived in the area before the founding of the state.
Wauwatosa East High School Wauwatosa East High School is a comprehensive public secondary school located in the city of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, also home to Wauwatosa West High School. It was originally known as Wauwatosa Senior High School until the opening of Tosa West in 1960.
Wauwatosa West High School Wauwatosa West High School is a comprehensive public secondary school located in the city of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. West is a sister-school to Wauwatosa East High School a part of the Wauwatosa School District.
Wave A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space or spacetime, often transferring energy. While a mechanical wave exists in a medium (which on deformation is capable of producing elastic restoring forces), waves of electromagnetic radiation (and probably gravitational radiation) can travel through vacuum, that is, without a medium.
Wave 105 Wave 105 is a UK local commercial radio station broadcasting across the Solent region, incorporating Hampshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight and part of West Sussex. Playing a mix of soft rock and adult contemporary music, it combines presenter-lead shows with local news, information and entertainment guides.
Wave a dead chicken Wave a dead chicken is a saying which means to make a token effort (wave a dead chicken) which one knows will ultimately be completely useless but must be done nonetheless so others are satisfied that enough effort has been used to try and fix the problem.
Wave Action Surf Magazine Wave Action Magazine began in a small apartment in Huntington Beach, California through the vision of Mike Freihofer and Pete Rocky. Both surfers had been working at a local Southern California Surf Magazine called International Surf, published by Steve Zeldin (who now publishes Foam and Water magazines).
Wave cloud A wave cloud is a cloud form created by atmospheric standing waves. Wave clouds are commonly long strings of lenticular clouds, created when an air mass passes over a geographic feature and a standing wave forms downwind.
Wave equation The wave equation is an important partial differential equation that describes the propagation of a variety of waves, such as sound waves, light waves and water waves. It arises in fields such as acoustics, electromagnetics, and fluid dynamics.
Wave front set In mathematical analysis, more precisely in microlocal analysis, the wave front (set) WF(f) characterizes the singularities of a generalized function f, not only in space, but more precisely also with respect to its Fourier transform at each point.
Wave function renormalization In quantum field theory, wave function renormalization is a rescaling, or renormalization, of quantum fields to take into account the effects of interactions. For a noninteracting or free field, the field operator creates or annihilates a single particle with probability 1.
Wave Gotik Treffen Wave-Gotik-Treffen (German das Treffen means meeting) is an annual festival for music and arts in Leipzig, Germany. 150+ bands and artists from various backgrounds (Gothic rock, EBM, Darkwave, Neofolk, Neoclassical, Noise, Medieval Music, Experimental and Death rock being examples) play at several venues throughout the city over 4 days on Whitsuntide.
Wave Harmonic Theory of Historical Perception The Wave Harmonic Theory of Historical Perception, in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is a theory studied by academics and freelance philosophers like Veet Voojagig that simply states that time is an illusion based on the passage of history, and that history is an illusion based on the passage of time.
Wave impedance Wave impedance is the ratio of the electric field strength to the magnetic field strength of an electromagnetic wave. The symbol Z is used to represent it and it's given in units of ohms, sybolized by the uppercase omega (Ω).
Wave Knight class tanker The Wave Knight class tankers are Royal Fleet Auxiliary fast fleet tankers tasked with providing fuel, food, ammunition and other supplies to Royal Navy vessels around the world. The ships were ordered to replace RFA Olna and RFA Olwen.
Wave loading Wave loading is most commonly the application of a pulsed or wavelike load to a material or object. This is most commonly used in the analysis of piping, ships, or building structures which experience wind, water, or seismic disturbances.
Wave making resistance Wave making resistance is a form of drag that effects surface Watercraft, such as boats and ships, and reflects the energy required to push the water out of the way of the hull. This energy goes into creating the wake.
Wave motion gun The wave motion gun (波動砲 ha dō hō) or Yamato gun/weapon is a science fiction concept of an extremely powerful weapon which, after being fired, requires considerable time to recharge while leaving its user powerless and vulnerable.
Wave of Long Island The Wave of Long Island is the longest-lived and most widely circulated newspaper in the Rockaway Peninsula, New York City Borough of Queens. The weekly paper, currently under the editorship of Howard Schwach, is well-known to Rockaway residents for coverage of community events and local politics.
Wave packet In physics, a wave packet is an envelope or packet containing an arbitrary number of wave forms. In quantum mechanics the wave packet is ascribed a special significance: it is interpreted to be a "probability wave" describing the probability that a particle or particles in a particular state will have a given position and momentum.
Wave plan of Geneva The Final Acts of the Regional Administrative LF/MF Broadcasting Conference (Regions 1 and 3) Geneva, 1975 (GE75) is an internationally agreed frequency plan prepared in Geneva for radio broadcasting on the longwave and Mediumwave bands outside of the Americas. (A separate agreement is in place for North and South America).
Wave pool A wave pool is a type of swimming pool in which reasonably large waves are artificially generated. The idea of such a pool is generally to provide an experience more similar to swimming in the ocean than a typical swimming pool can provide.
Wave Race Wave Race is a jet-ski themed racing game for the Nintendo Game Boy, released July 1992. It is a relatively simplistic game in which the player controls a jet skier around a track aiming to beat the computer or up to three friends using the link cable accessory.
Wave Race 64 Wave Race 64 is a racing game for the Nintendo 64 that was released on September 27 1996 in Japan and on November 5 1996 in North America. In Wave Race 64 the player races on jet skis in many different weather conditions, on a variety of different courses.
Wave soldering Wave soldering is a large-scale soldering process by which electronic components are soldered to a printed circuit board (PCB) to form an electronic assembly. The name is derived from the fact that the process uses a tank to hold a quantity of molten solder; the components are inserted into or placed on the PCB and the loaded PCB is passed across a pumped wave or cascade of solder.
Wave tank A wave tank is a laboratory setup for observing the behavior of surface waves. The typical wave tank is a deep and narrow, transparent-sided box filled with liquid, usually water, leaving open or air-filled space on top.
Wave velocity Wave velocity is a general concept, of various kinds of wave velocities, for an electromagnetic wave's phase and speed concerning energy (and information) propagation. The relationship between group velocity and phase velocity is the dispersion relationship.
Wave-crasher Wave-crashers, or “Mbeukk-mi” in Woloff, are long wooden boats painted in bright blue or yellow. They are constructed in West-Africa, more precisely along the Senegalese shoreline (and perhaps Gambia, and some other countries too).
Wave-cut platform A wave-cut platform or marine terrace is the narrow flat area often seen at the base of a sea cliff caused by the action of the waves. It forms after destructive waves hit against the cliff face, causing undercutting between the high and low water marks, mainly as a result of corrasion and hydraulic power, creating a wave-cut notch.
WaveAid WaveAid was a fund raising concert held on Saturday the 25th of January, 2005 as a means for raising funds for the victims of the Boxing Day Tsunami. It was held at the Sydney Cricket Ground and broadcast on television by Channel [V] and MTV, and on radio by Triple J, Triple M, NOVA and World Audio Radio 2.
Wavecrest Music Wavecrest Music is film composer Harry Gregson-Williams' production studio, located in Los Angeles, California. Williams started Wavecrest Music after his apprenticeship tenure with Hans Zimmer at Media Ventures.
Wavefront In optics and physics, a wavefront is the locus (a line, or, in a wave propagating in 3 dimensions a surface) of points having the same phase. Since infrared, optical, x-ray and gamma-ray frequencies are so high, the temporal component of electromagnetic waves is usually ignored at these wavelengths, and it is only the phase of the spatial oscillation that is described.
Wavefront arbiter A Wavefront arbiter is a circuit used to make decisions which control the crossbar of a high capacity switch fabric in parallel. It was commercialized in the TT1 and TTx chip sets designed by Abrizio and sold by PMC-Sierra.
Wavefront coding In optics, Wavefront Coding is a method for increasing the depth of field in an image to produce sharper images. It works by blurring the image using a specially shaped waveplate so that the image is out of focus by a constant amount.
Wavefront sensor A wavefront sensor is a device for measuring the aberrations of an optical wavefront. Although an amplitude splitting interferometer such as the Michelson interferometer could be called a wavefront sensor, the term is normally applied instruments that do not require an unaberrated reference beam to interfere with.
Wavefront Technologies Wavefront Technologies was a computer graphics company that developed and sold animation software used in Hollywood motion pictures and other industries. It was founded in 1984, in Santa Barbara, California, by Bill Kovacs, Larry Barels, Mark Sylvester.
Wavefunction collapse In certain interpretations of quantum mechanics, wavefunction collapse is one of two processes by which quantum systems apparently evolve according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It is also called collapse of the state vector or reduction of the wave packet.
Waveguide (electromagnetism) In electromagnetics and communications engineering, the term waveguide may refer to any linear structure that guides electromagnetic waves. However, the original and most common meaning is a hollow metal pipe used for this purpose.
Waveland State Historic Site Waveland State Historic Site in Lexington, Kentucky is the site of a Greek Revival home and plantation now maintained and operated as part of the Kentucky state park system. It was the home of the Joseph Bryan family, who followed Daniel Boone through the Cumberland Gap, and became an early settler and horseman of this region.
Wavelength dispersive X-ray spectroscopy The Wavelength dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (WDXRF or WDS) is a method used to determine the energy spectrum of an X-ray radiation. It is mainly used in chemical analysis, in an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, or in an electron microprobe (Castaing probe).
Wavelength shifter A wavelength shifter is a photofluorescent material that absorbs higher frequency photons and emits lower frequency photons. In most cases, the material absorbs one photon, and emits multiple lower-energy photons.
Wavelength-division multiplexing In fibre-optic communications, wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is a technology which multiplexes multiple optical carrier signals on a single optical fibre by using different wavelengths (colours) of laser light to carry different signals. This allows for a multiplication in capacity, in addition to making it possible to perform bidirectional communications over one strand of fibre.
Wavelet In mathematics, wavelets, wavelet analysis, and the wavelet transform refers to the representation of a signal in terms of a finite length or fast decaying oscillating waveform (known as the mother wavelet). This waveform is scaled and translated to match the input signal.
Wavelet compression Wavelet compression is a form of data compression well suited for image compression (sometimes also video compression and audio compression). The goal is to store image data in as little space as possible in a file.
Wavelet modulation Wavelet modulation, also known as fractal modulation, is a modulation technique that makes use of wavelet transformations to represent the data being transmitted. One of the objectives of this type of modulation is to send data at multiple rates over a channel that is unknown.
Wavelet series In mathematics, a wavelet series is a representation of a square-integrable (real or complex valued) function by a certain orthonormal series generated by a wavelet. This article provides a formal, mathematical definition of an orthonormal wavelet and of the integral wavelet transform.
Wavelet Scalar Quantization The Wavelet Scalar Quantization algorithm (WSQ) is a compression algorithm used for gray-scale fingerprint images. It is based on wavelet theory and has become an standard for the exchange and storage of fingerprint images.
Wavell Heights, Queensland Wavell Heights is a Brisbane suburb located 9 km north of the Brisbane central business district. It is named after Field Marshal Lord Wavell who was the Commander-In-Chief of the Allied Forces in the Middle East during the Second World War.
Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal Sir William Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal (10 March 1898, Beckenham-12 August 1983) was a rugby union player for Harlequins and England, President of the Rugby Football Union and a British politician.
Waveney Waveney is a local government district in Suffolk, England, named after the River Waveney that forms its north-west border. The district council is based in Lowestoft, which is the only unparished area in the district.
Waverider A waverider is a hypersonic aircraft design that improves its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by producing a lifting surface built out of the shock waves being generated by its own flight, a technique known as compression lift. To date the only aircraft to use the technique is the Mach 3 supersonic XB-70 Valkyrie, which was waverider-like with its drooping wingtips.
Waverley Action for Youth Services Waverley Action for Youth Services (WAYS) is the Youth Service of the Waverley area of Sydney, Australia - famous for Bondi Beach. WAYS Youth Services has been existence for around 20 years and has branched out from a small Youth Centre by the beach to an organisation offering everything from weekend camps to drug and alcohol counselling.
Waverley Line The Waverley Route is an abandoned double-track railway line that ran south from Edinburgh in Scotland through Midlothian and the Scottish Borders to Carlisle in England. It was built by the North British Railway Company; the first section, from Edinburgh to Hawick opened in 1849.
Waverley Park Waverley Park (formerly VFL Park and then AFL Park) was an often controversial Australian rules football stadium in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. For most of its history, its purpose was as a neutral venue and used by all Victorian based Victorian Football League/Australian Football League clubs.
Waverley Road railway station, Melbourne Waverley Road was a railway station on the Outer Circle located near the modern East Malvern station in what is now the Malvern Urban Forest in Malvern East, Victoria, Australia (see Victorian Railway Maps 1860 - 2000). The platform, the mound of which can still be seen, was located approximately 120 metres SSE of the line's Waverley Road crossing.
Waverley, New Zealand Waverley is a small town (population 903 at the 2001 census) located in south Taranaki, 44 km northwest of Wanganui. It was an important colonial stronghold during the land wars of the 1860s, during which time the town was called Wairoa.
Waverly Brewery Waverly Brewing Company built in 1914 for the purpose of making Heiberg Beer, but when the prohibition went into effect, the product became Country Club Near Beer and Cerex soda pop. In later years it was used as a poultry processing plant.
Waverly Brown Waverly L. Brown(1935-1981) was an Nyack, New York police officer who was killed in the line of duty during an infamous 1981 armed robery of a Brinks Armoured Car, along with fellow Nyack officer Edward O'Grady and Brinks security guard Peter Paige.
Waverly Fairgrounds Waverly Fairgrounds or Waverly Park was the home of the Elizabeth Resolutes baseball club. The Resolutes participated in the National Association 1873 season, so Waverly is considered a major league ballpark by those who count the NA as a major league.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium Waverly Hills Sanatorium, located in Louisville, Kentucky, opened in 1910 as a two-story hospital to accommodate 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients. It has been popularized on television as being one of the "most haunted" hospitals in the eastern United States, and was seen on ABC/FOX Family Channel's Scariest Places On Earth as well as VH1's Celebrity Paranormal Project.
Waverly, Colorado Waverly is a small unincorporated community in rural eastern Larimer County, Colorado in the United States. It is primarily an agricultural community, consisting of a group of houses along County Road 15 surrounded by ranchlands north of Fort Collins and west of Wellington.
Waves, North Carolina Waves is an unincorporated community located in Dare County, North Carolina, on Hatteras Island, part of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Originally (with Rodanthe and Salvo) part of the settlement of Chicamacomico, Waves was known as South Rodanthe until 1939.
Wavetable synthesis Wavetable synthesis is a technique used in certain digital music synthesizers to produce natural tone-like sounds. The sound of an existing instrument (a single note) is sampled and parsed into a circular sequence of samples or wavetables, each having one period or cycle per wave; a set of wavetables with user specified harmonic content can also be generated mathematically.
Wavis O'Shave Wavis O'Shave is an eccentric English musician and comedian who has released several cult classics including the album Anna Ford's Bum. Also appeared several times on Channel 4's 1980s music programme "The Tube" as a character known as the Hard.
Wavy Gravy Wavy Gravy (born Hugh Romney on May 15, 1936) is a life-long activist for peace and personal empowerment, best known for his hippie appearance, personality, and beliefs. His moniker (which is the name he uses on a day-to-day basis: "It's worked pretty well through my life," he says, "except with telephone operators – I have to say 'Gravy, first initial W.
Wawa and Concordville Railroad The Wawa and Concordville Railroad was a steam tourist and recreational railroad in the US state of Pennsylvania during the late 1960s. Although it has been defunct for nearly forty years, it continues to have a lasting effect on the steam tourist industry.
Wawa, Pennsylvania Wawa, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated community located in Middletown Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Named for the Ojibwe word for "goose" (taken from The Song of Hiawatha),
Wawasan 2020 Wawasan 2020 or Vision 2020 is a Malaysian ideal introduced by former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Bin Mohamad during the tabling of the Sixth Malaysia Plan in 1991. The vision calls for a self-sufficient industrial developed nation, complete with an economy that will be eightfold stronger of the economy as of the early 1990s by the year 2020.
Wawatay Wawatay was formed in 1974 by the people of Northern Ontario's Nishnawbe-Aski Nation, as a source of communications technology, namely radio, television, and print media services. Its mandate is to preserve the indigenous language and culture in its service area.
Wawel Wawel (Polish WzgĂłrze wawelskie) is the name of a lime hillock situated on the left bank of the Vistula in KrakĂłw, Poland, at an altitude of 228 metres above sea level. This is a symbolic place of great significance for Polish people.
Wawel Cathedral Wawel Cathedral – in full, the Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus and St Wenceslaus – is Poland's national sanctuary in the city of Krakow. It has a 1000-year history and was the traditional coronation site of Polish monarchs.
Wawesh Wawesh is a hip-hop] artist and producer from [[Kenya. The Sweden-based MC has been creating a buzz in Swahili speaking communities in Eastern Africa and the Diaspora via his three consecutive hit singles (Mjanja, Wawero and Wasanii) plus highly acclaimed debut album, “It’s Meant To Be”.
Wawne Wawne is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximatly 5½ miles north of Hull city centre and 4 miles south east of Beverley on the east bank of the River Hull.
Wawona, California Wawona, California is an unincorporated town located entirely within Yosemite National Park. It has approximately 160 year-round residents although the number of inhabitants swells considerably during peak tourist seasons, due to the large number of rental cabins in the town.
Wawota, Saskatchewan Wawota is a community of approximately 600 people, located along Highway 48 in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. Established in 1905, its name is said to come from a phrase in the Cree or Dakota dialect "wa ota", which means "deep snow".
Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki (Latin: Laurentius Grimaldius Gosliscius; 1530-1607) was a Polish bishop, political thinker and philosopher best known for his book De optimo senatore (1568; English translation: The Accomplished Senator, 1598).
Wax (rock band) Wax was a San Jose, California punkrock band, consisting of Joe Sib (vocals), Tom Gardocki (guitar), Dave Georgeff (bass), and Loomis Fall (drums). The band was best known for the MTV "buzz clip" song and video "California," directed by Spike Jonze.
Wax burning Wax burning, also known as wax boiling, typically refers to a folk custom practised in Hong Kong during the Mid-Autumn Festival by children and teenagers. Candle wax is placed in a metal container, such as a moon cake tin, and boiled until it explodes.
Wax lips Wax lips are the common name of a candy product made of colored and flavored wax, molded to resemble a pair of over-sized red lips. The lips have a bite plate in the back; when the plate is held between the teeth, the wax lips cover the wearer's own lips, to comic effect.
Wax Murdaraz Wax Murdaraz are a crew of vinyl specialists united to enhance the public's understanding about the art of hip-hop deejaying and music production. The roots of the group date back over a decade in which founding members (Da Fly) D-Ex and DJ Finesse recorded several tapes in album form under the name ...
Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees Wax: Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees is the first independent feature film to have been edited on a digital non-linear system. It is also the first film (independent or otherwise) to have been re-formatted as hypertext and posted on the Internet.
Wax wood The wood from White Wax Wood (presumably Ligustrum lucidum) saplings has been prized in China for thousands of years. It is an ideal material from which to fashion staffs, spear shafts, and walking sticks, because it is tough, hard and flexible and can absorb shock without breaking.
Wax-plant Wax plant (Hoya carnosa) of the family Apocynaceae, a member of the Milkweed family. It is a native of North America and is grown as a minor foliage crop but is mainly grown as a garden plant or house plant.
Waxhaw massacre The Waxhaw Massacre is an alternative name for the controversial Battle of Waxhaws that took place during the American Revolution on May 29, 1780, in Lancaster, South Carolina, between a Patriot force led by Abraham Buford and a mainly Loyalist force led by Banastre Tarleton.
Waxholmsbolaget Waxholmsbolaget, actually Waxholms Ă…ngfartygs AB is a shipping company that is owned by the Stockholm County Council and is responsible for the seabourne public transport in Stockholm archipelago and Stockholm harbour. The operations which are mostly tax-funded, included in 2003 about 4.
Waxoyl Waxoyl (a trade mark of Waxoyl AG, Switzerland) is a rust-preventative fluid which belongs to the general category of "slushing oils". It is commonly used to prolong the life of car chassis and bodywork by excluding water and air from bare metal and by slowing the progress of existing rust using rust inhibitors.
Waxpool, Virginia Waxpool is an unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia. Waxpool is centered on Waxpool Road (Virginia Secondary Route 625) in the vicinity of Beaver Dam Reservoir and the planned community of Broadlands.
Waxwing The waxwings are a group of passerine birds characterised by soft silky plumage and unique red tips to some of the wing feathers. In the Bohemian and Cedar Waxwings, these tips look like sealing wax, and give the group its name.
Waxwing (band) Waxwing was formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1996 by singer/guitarist Rocky Votolato, drummer Rudy Gajadhar, bassist Andrew Hartley and Cody Votolato (younger brother to Rocky) as a second guitarist. Waxwing recorded three full-length albums, their first in 1999, For Madmen Only, the critically acclaimed One for the Ride in 2000, and in 2002 they recorded Nobody Can Take What Everybody Owns.
Waxworks (computer game) Waxworks is a 1992 Horrorsoft first-person dungeon crawl style RPG and is only the spiritual sequel to Elvira II: The Jaws Of Cerberus since Elvira is not present in this game. It was originally an Amiga game but was also released for DOS.
Waxworks museum of the Castle of Diósgyőr The waxworks museum of the Castle of Diósgyőr is a waxworks museum, one of the largest ones in Central Europe. It is situated in the northeastern tower of the Castle of Diósgyőr, in Miskolc-Diósgyőr, Hungary.
Waxy corn Waxy corn (maize) was found in China in 1909. As this plant showed many peculiar traits, the American breeders long used it as a genetic marker to tag the existence of hidden genes in other maize breeding programs.
Way Disciple Program The Way Disciple Program is a volunteer recruitment project launched by The Way International in 1995. The initial group was sent to large cities mainly in the United States in October 1995, returning on December 16.
Way Moby Polka The "Way Moby Polka", previously known as the "Ear Booker Polka", is a piece of music that is always the last song on each of Weird Al Yankovic's polka medleys. It is referenced separately in the album credits for legal purposes, to separate the music created by Weird Al Yankovic from the music created by other artists.
Way of Former Heaven The Way of Former Heaven, or Hsien-t'ien tao or Xian Tian Tao (先天道) encompasses five religious groups of Chinese origin. They claim to strive for unification of Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
Way of the Samurai Way of the Samurai is a PlayStation 2 action-adventure game released in 2002. Set in 19th Century Japan, the player takes on the role of a ronin who wanders into a remote village and becomes involved in a conflict between rival clans.
Way of the Samurai 2 Way of the Samurai 2 is a PlayStation 2 action-adventure game released in 2004. The game is a sequel to Way of the Samurai, however despite similarities in gameplay and style the events and characters in each game are unrelated (Apart from the return of Dojima the swordsmith and Tesshin Kurou as a martial arts instructor).

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