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Highlander
Highlander may refer to: Regional cultures * Gorals (lit. ''Highlanders''), a culture in southern Poland and northern Slovakia * Hill people, who live in hills and mountains * Merina people, an ethnic group from the central plateau of Madagascar * Montagnard (Vietnam), various ethnic groups in the highlands of Vietnam * Pahari people (other), various ethnic groups from the Himalayas * Malësor or Malok (lit. ''Highlanders''), a person from Malësia (highlands) in Albania * a person from the Ethiopian Highlands * a person from the Scottish Highlands * Montañés (lit. ''Highlanders''), the people of Cantabria in northern Spain * Southern Highlanders, the mountain people of Southern Appalachia in the eastern United States Publications * ''The Highlander'', a book written by James Macpherson * ''The Highlander'' (newspaper), a Gaelic-language political newspaper based in Scotland * ''The Highlander'', the student newspaper of the University of California, Riverside * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highlander (franchise)
''Highlander'' is a British film and television franchise created by American screenwriter Gregory Widen. The series began with a 1986 fantasy film starring Christopher Lambert, who played Connor MacLeod, the titular Highlander. Born in Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands in the 16th century, MacLeod is one of a number of immortals empowered by an energy called the Quickening and only able to die if beheaded. On television, '' Highlander: The Series'' aired for six seasons from 1992–1998, starring Adrian Paul as Connor's kinsman Duncan MacLeod, another immortal Highlander born decades later. Recurring characters in the series included the immortal thief Amanda (Elizabeth Gracen) and oldest immortal Methos (Peter Wingfield) who each had spin-off shows, '' Highlander: The Raven'' and '' The Methos Chronicles'' respectively, which each lasted one season. There have been four theatrical ''Highlander'' films, one made-for-TV film, two live-action television series, an animated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highlander Books
''Highlander: The Series'' is an American science fantasy action-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the eponymous "Highlander". It was co-produced by Rysher Distribution in the United States, Gaumont Television in France, Reteitalia in Italy, RTL Plus in Germany, and Amuse Video in Japan. An alternate sequel to the 1986 feature film '' Highlander'', it features a storyline in which the protagonist of that film (Connor MacLeod, a member of a race of "Immortals") has not won "the Prize" sought by all Immortals, who still exist post-1985. Christopher Lambert reprised his role as Connor in the pilot episode, which introduced series protagonist Duncan MacLeod, an Immortal who was taken in by the same clan of Scottish Highlanders who had found and raised Connor generations before. The series was an international hit and was nominated twice for the Motion Picture Sound Editors' Golden Reel Award (Foley Artist ("The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highlander (film)
''Highlander'' is a 1986 fantasy action-adventure film directed by Russell Mulcahy from a screenplay by Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood and Larry Ferguson. It stars Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, and Sean Connery. The film chronicles the climax of an age-old war between immortal warriors, depicted through interwoven past and present-day storylines. It is the first film in the ''Highlander'' franchise. Connor MacLeod (Lambert) is born in the Scottish Highlands in the 16th century. After being killed by the Kurgan in battle, he is revived from his fatal wound and is banished from his village. MacLeod is found by swordsman Ramírez (Connery), who explains they and others were born immortal, invincible unless beheaded. Immortals wage a secret war, fighting each other until the last few remaining will meet at the Gathering to fight for the Prize. In 1985, the Gathering is finally happening in New York City and MacLeod must make sure the Prize is not won by his oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highlander (comics)
Dynamite Entertainment has published two comic book mini series based on the ''Highlander'' franchise. The first is a series of 13 issues simply titled ''Highlander'' that was later released in a 3 volume set. The second series is a 4 issue prequel to first ''Highlander'' film called ''Highlander: Way of the Sword''. ''Highlander'' Simply titled ''Highlander'', the first limited series comic book was originally released in 2006 and ran for one year, ending in 2007. It was written by Brandon Jerwa and Michael Avon Oeming in close collaboration with David Abramowitz, who was Creative Consultant in charge of the writing on '' Highlander: The Series'' and the subsequent ''Highlander'' movies. It was published by Dynamite Entertainment. The preview issue released in July 2006 had over 100,000 copies pre-sold. It is inspired from '' Highlander'', the franchise about Immortals battling each other throughout history. The comic book series deals with what the main characters of the fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highlander (Bakufu Slump Album)
Highlander may refer to: Regional cultures * Gorals (lit. ''Highlanders''), a culture in southern Poland and northern Slovakia * Hill people, who live in hills and mountains * Merina people, an ethnic group from the central plateau of Madagascar * Montagnard (Vietnam), various ethnic groups in the highlands of Vietnam * Pahari people (other), various ethnic groups from the Himalayas * Malësor or Malok (lit. ''Highlanders''), a person from Malësia (highlands) in Albania * a person from the Ethiopian Highlands * a person from the Scottish Highlands * Montañés (lit. ''Highlanders''), the people of Cantabria in northern Spain * Southern Highlanders, the mountain people of Southern Appalachia in the eastern United States Publications * ''The Highlander'', a book written by James Macpherson * ''The Highlander'' (newspaper), a Gaelic-language political newspaper based in Scotland * ''The Highlander'', the student newspaper of the University of California, Riverside * ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highlander (video Game)
''Highlander'' is a video game tie-in to the '' Highlander'' franchise released in 1986, the same year as the film, published by Ocean Software for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC home computers. ''Highlander'' was panned by reviewers. Gameplay Highlander is an arcade fighting game, in which the player controls one of two swordsmen. In the single-player mode the player plays as Connor MacLeod and must fight three opponents in one-on-one combat: his mentor Ramírez, then Fizir (named Fasil in the film), before finally facing The Kerghan (named The Kurgan in the film). In each fight the objective is to reduce the opponent's health to zero, at which point he is beheaded and the player wins the fight. A two-player mode is also available. Reception ''Crash'' gave the Spectrum version an overall score of 57%, calling its gameplay "clunky" and "trite", graphics "chunky" and 'unimpressive', and all three reviewers described ''Highlander'' as "boring", with one reviewer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California, Riverside
The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban district of Riverside with a branch campus of in Palm Desert. In 1907, the predecessor to UCR was founded as the UC Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside which pioneered research in biological pest control and the use of growth regulators responsible for extending the citrus growing season in California from four to nine months. Some of the world's most important research collections on citrus diversity and entomology, as well as science fiction and photography, are located at Riverside. UCR's undergraduate College of Letters and Science opened in 1954. The Regents of the University of California declared UCR a general campus of the system in 1959, and graduate students were admitted in 1961. To accommodate an enrollment of 21,000 stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Highlands
The Highlands ( sco, the Hielands; gd, a’ Ghàidhealtachd , 'the place of the Gaels') is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic name of ' literally means "the place of the Gaels" and traditionally, from a Gaelic-speaking point of view, includes both the Western Isles and the Highlands. The area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis. During the 18th and early 19th centuries the population of the Highlands rose to around 300,000, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Fortress 2
''Team Fortress 2'' is a 2007 multiplayer first-person shooter, first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It is the sequel to the 1996 ''Team Fortress'' Mod (video gaming), mod for ''Quake (video game), Quake'' and its 1999 remake, ''Team Fortress Classic''. The game was released in October 2007 as part of ''The Orange Box'' for Windows and the Xbox 360, and ported to the PlayStation 3 in December 2007. It was released as a standalone game for Windows in April 2008, and updated to support Mac OS X in June 2010 and Linux in February 2013. It is distributed online through Valve's digital retailer Steam (service), Steam, with Electronic Arts managing retail and console editions. Players join one of two teams—RED and BLU—and choose one of nine character classes to play as in game modes such as capture the flag and King of the Hill (game), king of the hill. Development was led by John Cook and Robin Walker (game designer), Robin Walker, the developer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Highlander (newspaper)
''The Highlander'' was a 19th-century Scottish political newspaper written in English and Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well .... Edited by John Murdoch, the newspaper is credited with helping to revitalize the Gaelic language in Scotland. Based in Inverness, ''The Highlander'' was published weekly starting in May 1873 until it was halted due to financial issues in 1881 due to lawsuits brought on by disgruntled landowners.Dòmhnall Eachann Meek, Mairi Mhòr nan Oran ; Taghadh de a h-Orain (Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press, 1998) p40 The newspaper's mission was "advocating the cause of the people, and particularly the right of the Gaelic people to their native soil." References Newspapers published in Scotland Scottish Gaelic mass media Defunct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Douglas High School
David Douglas High School (DDHS) is a public high school in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is a part of the David Douglas School District. In 1998 Lynn Olson, author of ''The School-to-work Revolution: How Employers And Educators Are Joining Forces To Prepare Tomorrow's Skilled Workforce'', said that David Douglas was "a clean, orderly, comfortable school, the kind that sprouted up all over the country in the baby boom years of the 1950s and 1960s."Olsonp. 193-194 History The school is named after 19th-century Scottish botanist David Douglas, namesake of such Pacific Northwest species as the Douglas fir. Originally established in 1954, enrollment at DDHS increased quickly in subsequent years as development in suburban Portland expanded, eventually becoming one of the largest high schools in the area. In 2009 around 20 students at David Douglas, all a part of the East Precinct Youth Advisory Council, created a traffic enforcement mission at the campus in cooperation with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appalachia
Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York State to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, ''Appalachia'' typically refers only to the cultural region of the central and southern portions of the range, from the Catskill Mountains of New York southwest to the Blue Ridge Mountains which run southwest from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia, and the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. In 2020, the region was home to an estimated 26.1 million people, of which roughly 80% are white. Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions regarding the isolation, temperament, and behavior of its inhabitants. Early 20th century writers often engaged in yellow journalism focused on sensational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
