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Holy Grail (other)
The Holy Grail is a mystical object in the Arthurian legend. Holy Grail is commonly used in a phrase to analogously denote something with high perceived value: *A rare, valuable object, source, event or difficult-to-reach goal in a given field: **Twin Sisters (cannons), Twin Sisters, the "Texas Holy Grail" **A rare acetate by the Beatles, with the songs "Hello Little Girl" and "Till There Was You" *A major, important unsolved problem in a given field; see Lists of unsolved problems **(For example, the Riemann hypothesis might be called "a holy grail" of mathematics, as could a theory of everything for physics, or P versus NP problem, P vs. NP for computational complexity theory) Holy Grail may also refer to: *Holy Grail (Hunters & Collectors song), "Holy Grail" (Hunters & Collectors song), 1992 *Holy Grail (Jay-Z song), "Holy Grail" (Jay-Z song), 2013, featuring Justin Timberlake *Holy Grail (album), ''Holy Grail'' (album), a 2011 album by Versailles *''Monty Python and the Holy G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Grail
The Holy Grail (french: Saint Graal, br, Graal Santel, cy, Greal Sanctaidd, kw, Gral) is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature. Various traditions describe the Holy Grail as a cup, dish, or stone with miraculous healing powers, sometimes providing eternal youth or sustenance in infinite abundance, often guarded in the custody of the Fisher King and located in the hidden Grail castle. By analogy, any elusive object or goal of great significance may be perceived as a "holy grail" by those seeking such. A "grail" (Old French: ''graal'' or ''greal''), wondrous but not unequivocally holy, first appears in ''Perceval, the Story of the Grail'', an unfinished chivalric romance written by Chrétien de Troyes around 1190. Chrétien's story inspired many continuations, translators and interpreters in the later-12th and early-13th centuries, including Wolfram von Eschenbach, who perceived the Grail as a stone. The Christian, Celtic or possibly other orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' is a 1975 British comedy film satirizing the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) and directed by Gilliam and Jones in their feature directorial debuts. It was conceived during the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their BBC Television series '' Monty Python's Flying Circus''. While the group's first film, ''And Now for Something Completely Different'', was a compilation of sketches from the first two television series, ''Holy Grail'' is an original story that parodies the legend of King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail. Thirty years later, Idle used the film as the basis for the 2005 Tony Award-winning musical ''Spamalot''. ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' grossed more than any British film exhibited in the US in 1975. In the US, it was selected in 2011 as the second-best comedy of all time in the ABC s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grail (other)
The Grail or Holy Grail is a mythical object of Arthurian legend. Grail may also refer to: Entertainment * "Grail" (''Babylon 5''), a 1994 episode of the ''Babylon 5'' television series *Grail (DC Comics), the secret society from the comic book ''Preacher'' *''The Grail'', a 1988 adventure video game by Microdeal *''The Grail'', a 1915 short film directed by William Worthington Science and technology *Grail (web browser), a free extensible web browser written in Python *GRAIL or Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, a 2011 twin-spacecraft NASA Moon mission * GRAIL (protein), a human enzyme also known as RNF128 * Graphic Input Language, used in the RAND Tablet * GRAIL (company), a biotechnology and pharmaceutical company Other uses *SA-7 Grail, NATO reporting name of the Strela 2 Russian surface-to-air missile system *Grail (women's movement), a quasi-religious women's group *Grail Movement, a religious movement inspired by the work of Oskar Ernst Bernhardt * Bernard Grail (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL Premiership
This page is a complete chronological listing of VFL/AFL premiers. The Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1990, is the elite national competition in men's Australian rules football. The inaugural premiership was awarded as a result of a round-robin finals system; this format was replaced after the first season, and a grand final has been held every season since 1898 to determine the premiers, with the exception of 1924 when a modified round-robin system was used. The formation of a national competition, beginning in 1987, has resulted in the league attempting to develop "an even and stable competition" through a range of equalisation policies, such as a salary cap and draft (introduced in 1985 and 1986 respectively). This has had a significant impact on the spread of premierships: since 1990, thirteen clubs have won a premiership, compared with only five clubs between 1967 and 1989. Two clubs, and , have won the most VFL/AFL pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup (french: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) considers it to be one of the "most important championships available to the sport". The trophy was commissioned in 1892 as the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup and is named after Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor General of Canada, who donated it as an award to Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club. The entire Stanley family supported the sport, the sons and daughters all playing and promoting the game. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to Montreal Hockey Club, and winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games and league play. Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. In 1915, the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Pacifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Grail (web Design)
The holy grail is a web page layout which has multiple equal-height columns that are defined with style sheets. It is commonly desired and implemented, but for many years, the various ways in which it could be implemented with available technologies all had drawbacks. Because of this, finding an optimal implementation was likened to searching for the elusive Holy Grail. The limitations of CSS and HTML, the desirability of semantically meaningful pages that rank well in search engines, and the deficiencies of various browsers combined historically to create a situation in which there was no way to create this type of layout that would be considered totally correct. As the underlying technologies did not provide a proper solution, web designers found various ways to work around the limitations. Common workarounds included changes in page structure, the addition of graphics, scripting, and the creative use of CSS. These methods were imperfect, inconvenient, and considered by some to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Grail Temple
Holy Grail Temple is a summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona, Coconino County of northern Arizona, Southwestern United States, US. It is situated seven miles north-northeast of Havasupai Point, and two miles west-northwest of King Arthur Castle, within the Shinumo Amphitheater. Topographic relief is significant as it rises over above the Colorado River in three miles. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Holy Grail Temple is located in a cold semi-arid climate zone, with precipitation Surface runoff, runoff draining south to Shinumo Creek, which flows west to the Colorado River. History Holy Grail Temple was originally named "Bass Tomb" in 1891 by Virginia Dox, for William Wallace Bass, who was Dox's guide into the Grand Canyon at this location.Gregory McNamee, ''Grand Canyon Place Names'', 1997, Mountaineers Publisher, , page 64. Impressed by her, Bass named nearby Dox Castle shortly after she left. However, at the suggestion of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Grail Tapestries
The Holy Grail or San Graal tapestries are a set of six tapestries depicting scenes from the legend of King Arthur and the quest for the Holy Grail. The tapestries were commissioned from Morris & Co. by William Knox D'Arcy in 1890 for his dining room at Stanmore Hall, outside London.Parry (1983), pp. 116–17Wood (1997), pp. 116–18 Additional versions of the tapestries with minor variations were woven on commission by Morris & Co. over the next decade. The series The six original tapestries illustrate the story of the Grail quest as told in Sir Thomas Malory's 1485 book ''Le Morte d'Arthur''. Like other Morris & Co. tapestries, the Holy Grail sequence was a group effort, with overall composition and figures designed by Edward Burne-Jones, heraldry by William Morris, and foreground florals and backgrounds by John Henry Dearle. The narrative panels were accompanied by smaller verdure or woodland panels featuring deer, the knights' shields hung on trees, and text telling the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Grail (band)
Holy Grail is an American heavy metal band from Pasadena, California, formed in 2008. History Holy Grail was formed in 2008 as Sorcerer by singer James Paul Luna, lead guitarist James J. LaRue and drummer Tyler Meahl, all ex-members of White Wizzard. They recruited rhythm guitarist Eli Santana and bassist Eric Harris (formerly of Skeletonwitch) to complete the lineup. Before Holy Grail recorded their first extended play, bassist Blake Mount replaced Harris. In 2009, the band released their first EP, '' Improper Burial'', on Prosthetic Records. They went on to release their first full-length album, '' Crisis in Utopia'', in 2010, to critical acclaim. The cover art for ''Crisis in Utopia'' was created by Andrei Bouzikov. The band toured heavily from 2009 to 2012 in support of their first album. In November 2009, they supported 3 Inches of Blood and Saviours on a North American tour. In April 2010, they supported Amon Amarth on their North American tour. In June, they perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Grail (album)
''Holy Grail'' is the third album by Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, ..., released on June 15, 2011 it is their first to feature new bassist Masashi. The album includes " Philia", theme song of their TV program ''Onegai Kanaete Versailles'', "Masquerade", main theme of the film ''Vampire Stories: Brothers'' and "Vampire", main theme of the film ''Vampire Stories: Chasers''. The limited edition comes with a bonus DVD of the music videos for "Masquerade", "Vampire", " Destiny -The Lovers-" and "Philia". The deluxe box limited edition comes with a DVD of five versions of the "Masquerade" music video, each focusing on a different member, an interview with Kamijo and the making-of the video. Track listing References {{Authority control Versai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twin Sisters (cannons)
The Twin Sisters are a pair of cannons used by Texas Military Forces during the Texas Revolution. They are among the most famous artillery in Texas military history with the "Come and Take It" cannon starting the revolution at the Battle of Gonzales and the Twin Sisters winning it at the Battle of San Jacinto. The Twin Sisters were also potentially used during the Mexican Invasions of 1842 and American Civil War. Their disappearance and ensuing search efforts have fueled their notoriety, colloquially referred to as the "Texas Holy Grail." History Provenance Nearly every aspect of the Twin Sisters is debated among historians, archaeologists, and treasure hunters including their design, type (iron or bronze), caliber (four or six pounder), foundry of fabrication (Hawkins and Tatum or Eagle Iron Works/Greenwood), origin of the "Twin Sisters" moniker, where they were used, and where they disappeared. The earliest and most credible primary source of their name, origin, and role c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Grail (Jay-Z Song)
"Holy Grail" is a song by American rapper Jay-Z from his twelfth studio album ''Magna Carta Holy Grail''. It features vocals from American singer Justin Timberlake and serves as the album's lead single. It was produced by The-Dream, Timbaland, and J-Roc, with additional production from No ID and contains elements of Nirvana's 1991 hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Following the release of the album, the song charted in many regions, entering at number eight and reaching number four on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, as well as charting at number seven on the UK Singles Chart. "Holy Grail" had sold over 3.4 million copies in the United States as of 2018. "Holy Grail" won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 56th Grammy Awards. In 2014, ''Billboard'' placed it at number 25 on their list of Top 100 Hot Rap Songs of all time. Recording and composition "Holy Grail", along with another track from ''Magna Carta Holy Grail'' called "Oceans", was recorded in 2011 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
