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Barrens Dance
Barrens may refer to: * Pine barrens, a type of ecosystem found in the Northeastern United States ** Pine Barrens (New Jersey), a pine barren in the state of New Jersey ** List of pine barrens which includes some other locations called "Pine Barrens" or "Barrens" * Serpentine barrens, a grassland or savanna ecosystem in which toxic metals in the soil from minerals of the serpentine group inhibit the growth of many plants * Urchin barrens, where the proliferation of sea urchins has caused a massive kelp die-off The Barrens may refer to: * the Tundra of northern Canada, sometimes specific to the Tundra of Northern Manitoba as referenced in the 1956 book Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat. Also called 'Barren Lands'. * a location in the Warcraft Universe * a novel by F. Paul Wilson * a novel by Joyce Carol Oates * The Barrens (''It''), a location in the novel ''It'' by Stephen King * ''The Barrens'' (film), a 2012 American horror film written and directed by Darren Lynn Bousma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pine Barrens
Pine barrens, pine plains, sand plains, or pineland areas occur throughout the U.S. from Florida to Maine (see Atlantic coastal pine barrens) as well as the Midwest, West, and Canada and parts of Eurasia. Perhaps the most well known pine-barrens area is the New Jersey Pine Barrens. "Pine barrens" are generally pine forests in otherwise "barren" and agriculturally difficult areas. Such pine forests often occur on dry, acidic, infertile soils, which also include grasses, forbs, and low shrubs. The most extensive pine barrens occur in large areas of sandy glacial deposits (including outwash plains), lakebeds, and outwash terraces along rivers. Description Botany The most common trees are the jack pine, red pine, pitch pine, blackjack oak, and scrub oak; a scattering of larger oaks is not unusual. The understory includes grasses, sedges, and forbs, many of them common in dry prairies, and rare plants such as the sand-plain gerardia (''Agalinis acuta''). Plants of the heath fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels '' Black Water'' (1992), ''What I Lived For'' (1994), and ''Blonde'' (2000), and her short story collections ''The Wheel of Love'' (1970) and ''Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories'' (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel ''them'' (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019). Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014, and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. Since 2016, she has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches short fiction in the spring semesters. Oates was elected to the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barren Vegetation
Barren vegetation describes an area of land where plant growth may be sparse, stunted, and/or contain limited biodiversity. Environmental conditions such as toxic or infertile soil, high winds, coastal salt-spray, and climatic conditions are often key factors in poor plant growth and development. Barren vegetation can be categorized depending on the climate, geology, and geographic location of a specific area. Pine barrens, coastal barrens, and serpentine barrens Serpentine soil is an uncommon soil type produced by weathered ultramafic rock such as peridotite and its metamorphic derivatives such as serpentinite. More precisely, serpentine soil contains minerals of the serpentine subgroup, especially anti ... are some of the more distinct ecoregions for barren vegetation and are the most commonly researched by scientists. Often referred to as "heathlands", barrens can be excellent environments for unique biological diversity and taxonomic compositions. Serpentine Barrens Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OneShot
''OneShot'' is an adventure game developed by indie studio Future Cat and published by Degica. Based on a 2014 free version, it was released for Steam on December 8, 2016, and on itch.io on March 12, 2020. A version adapted for consoles, ''OneShot: World Machine Edition'', was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on September 22, 2022. Officially described as a game where "the world knows you exist", both its gameplay and plot involve metafictional elements. Many puzzles involve interacting with the operating system outside of the game application. Narratively, the player is a separate character from the protagonist Niko. The latter arrive in an unfamiliar world which has been deprived of its sunlight, and eventually aim to restore it by replacing its sun, a lightbulb, at the top of a tower. ''OneShot'' received largely positive reviews, with most reviewers praising its narrative and metafictional aspects, comparing it positively to other games such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mia Kirshner
Mia Kirshner (born January 25, 1975) is a Canadian actress, writer and social activist. She is known for television roles as Mandy in '' 24'' (2001–2005), as Jenny Schecter in ''The L Word'' (2004–2009), as Amanda Grayson in '' Star Trek: Discovery'' (2017–2019), and as Isobel Flemming in ''The Vampire Diaries'' (2010-2011). Her film credits include ''Love and Human Remains'' (1993), ''Exotica'' (1994), '' The Crow: City of Angels'' (1996), '' Mad City'' (1997), ''Not Another Teen Movie'' (2001) and ''The Black Dahlia'' (2006). Early life Kirshner was born in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of Etti (Henrietta), a teacher, and Sheldon Kirshner, a journalist who wrote for ''The Canadian Jewish News''. Kirshner is a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors; her father was born in the displaced persons camp at Bad Reichenhall in Germany in 1946, and met Kirshner's mother, a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, after they escaped to Israel. Kirshner's paternal grandparents were Polish Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Moyer
Stephen Moyer (born Stephen John Emery; 11 October 1969) is an English film and television actor who is best known as vampire Bill Compton in the HBO series ''True Blood''. His first television role was in 1993 as Philip Masefield in the TV adaptation of the play ''Conjugal Rites'', written by actor/playwright Roger Hall. This was followed by the television film ''Lord of Misrule'', filmed in Fowey, Cornwall, which also featured Richard Wilson, Emily Mortimer and Prunella Scales. In 1997, Moyer made his big-screen debut landing the lead role in the film adaptation of the long-running comic strip ''Prince Valiant'' by Hal Foster, working alongside Ron Perlman and Katherine Heigl. From 2017 to 2019, he starred as Reed Strucker, the lead role in Fox series '' The Gifted''. Early life and career Moyer was born in Brentwood, Essex and attended St Martin's, a comprehensive school in Hutton, Essex. He graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Lynn Bousman
Darren Lynn Bousman (; born January 11, 1979) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in horror films. He has directed four of the ''Saw'' films: ''Saw II'', ''Saw III'', ''Saw IV'', and '' Spiral''. He also directed the horror musicals ''Repo! The Genetic Opera'' and ''The Devil's Carnival'' movies. Bousman is co-creator and writer of alternate reality games ( ARG) and immersive experiences, ''The Tension Experience'' (2016), ''The Lust Experience'' (2017), ''Theatre Macabre'' (2018), ''iConfidant'' (2020), and ''One Day Die'' (2020). Personal life Bousman was born in Overland Park, Kansas, the son of Nancy and Lynn Bousman. He attended high school at Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, and studied film at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, graduating in 2000. He was inducted into the Full Sail University Hall of Fame in 2011. Bousman lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. Career ''Saw II'' During 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barrens (film)
''The Barrens'' is a 2012 American horror film written and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and starring Stephen Moyer and Mia Kirshner. The film was released under different titles in several European territories: e.g., as ''Jersey Devil'' in the German-speaking countries, as ''The Forest'' in Belgium and France, and as ''Devil in the Woods'' in the United Kingdom, when shown on The Horror Channel in January 2015. Plot Two young campers walk together through the woods, commenting that there are no animals or birds around. They discover a pile of mutilated deer carcasses left on the trail and then are chased by a mutilated deer that drops dead in front of them. Something sounding like a large swarm of birds is heard approaching. Richard Vineyard, his wife Cynthia, his daughter Sadie, and his young son Danny leave their suburban home for a camping trip. They want to leave civilization behind and bond as a family in the Pine Barrens, a forest in southern New Jersey. On the way to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barrens (It)
Barrens may refer to: * Pine barrens, a type of ecosystem found in the Northeastern United States ** Pine Barrens (New Jersey), a pine barren in the state of New Jersey ** List of pine barrens which includes some other locations called "Pine Barrens" or "Barrens" * Serpentine barrens, a grassland or savanna ecosystem in which toxic metals in the soil from minerals of the serpentine group inhibit the growth of many plants * Urchin barrens, where the proliferation of sea urchins has caused a massive kelp die-off The Barrens may refer to: * the Tundra of northern Canada, sometimes specific to the Tundra of Northern Manitoba as referenced in the 1956 book Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat. Also called 'Barren Lands'. * a location in the Warcraft Universe * a novel by F. Paul Wilson * a novel by Joyce Carol Oates * The Barrens (''It''), a location in the novel ''It'' by Stephen King * ''The Barrens'' (film), a 2012 American horror film written and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warcraft Universe
''Warcraft'' is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media created by Blizzard Entertainment. The series is made up of five core games: '' Warcraft: Orcs & Humans'', '' Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness'', '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'', ''World of Warcraft'', and '' Hearthstone''. The first three of these core games are in the real-time strategy genre, where opposing players command virtual armies in battle against each other or a computer-controlled enemy. The fourth and best-selling title of the franchise is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), where players control their character and interact with each other in a virtual world. ''Warcraft'' is one of the highest-grossing video game franchises of all time, having grossed $11.2 billion in lifetime revenue, as of 2018. Expansion sets were released for ''Warcraft II'' (''Beyond the Dark Portal''), ''Warcraft III'' ('' The Frozen Throne'') and multiple expansions were released for ''World of War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pine Barrens (New Jersey)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens, also known as the Pinelands or simply the Pines, is the largest remaining example of the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecosystem, stretching across more than seven counties of New Jersey. Two other large, contiguous examples of this ecosystem remain in the northeastern United States: the Long Island Central Pine Barrens and the Massachusetts Coastal Pine Barrens. The name pine barrens refers to the area's sandy, acidic, nutrient-poor soil. Although European settlers could not cultivate their familiar crops there, the unique ecology of the Pine Barrens supports a diverse spectrum of plant life, including orchids and carnivorous plants. The area is also notable for its populations of rare pygmy pitch pines and other plant species that depend on the frequent fires of the Pine Barrens to reproduce. The sand that composes much of the area's soil is referred to by the locals as sugar sand. The Pine Barrens remains mostly rural and undisturbed despite it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farley Mowat
Farley McGill Mowat, (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian north, such as ''People of the Deer'' (1952) and '' Never Cry Wolf'' (1963). The latter, an account of his experiences with wolves in the Arctic, was made into a film of the same name released in 1983. For his body of work as a writer he won the annual Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature in 1970."Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People" ''Awards''. Writers Trust of Canada (writerstrust.com). Retrieved 2015-08-20. With linked guidelines and list of winners. Mowat's advocacy for [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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