The Leap (film)

	The Leap (film) The Leap may refer to: * The Leap, Queensland, a coastal rural locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia * The Leap (novel), a 2001 novel by Jonathan Stroud * The Leap (How I Met Your Mother), an episode of the TV series How I Met Your Mother * The Divine and the Decay, a 1957 novel by Bill Hopkins., republished as The Leap See also * Leap (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Leap, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Leap, Queensland The Leap is a coastal rural locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the The Leap had a population of 642 people. Geography The locality is bounded to the north-west by Constant Creek and to the north by its mouth () into the Coral Sea. Sand Bay is offshore (). The Bruce Highway enters the locality from the south-east ( Farleigh) and exits to the south-west ( Hampden). The North Coast railway line follows a similar route to the north of the highway but there are no railway stations on that line serving the locality. There is a network of cane tramways in the locality to transport the harvested sugarcane to the sugar mill for processing. The locality has a number of named peaks, including: * Sugarloaf Peak () * The Leap (Mount Mandurana) () * The Sister () History The Leap is named for a historical event in which it is widely believed an Aboriginal woman carrying her three-year-old child leapt off a cliff to evade capture by the Queensland Native Police in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Leap (novel) ''The Leap'' is a fantasy novel by Jonathan Stroud, published in 2001. It centres on a girl whose best friend drowns in a mill pool. Plot introduction Everyone says that Max has drowned, but Charlie thinks differently: she was in the mill-pool with him, and knows exactly what she saw. When she begins to see him in her dreams, her hopes are raised. It seems the reunion she craves is possible. But where exactly is Max leading her? And will she be able to return? Defining attributes in ''The Leap'' The story weaves a fantasy into everyday life, but for the most part it is confined to Charlie's dreams (and later, her perception of the waking world). With only a few clues, the reader is kept guessing whether it is all in Charlie's imagination, or whether there is a reality behind the dream. No simple answer is given, even at the end. ''After the high adventures of ''Buried Fire'', I was interested in a more low-key and subtle investigation of how fantasy and reality collide. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Leap (How I Met Your Mother) "The Leap" is the 24th and final episode of season 4 of the ''How I Met Your Mother'' TV series and 88th overall. It originally aired on May 18, 2009. Plot Future Ted (Bob Saget) describes the evening of his 31st birthday. Over the previous 3 days, Ted had been working hard to design a hat-shaped rib restaurant. As he pulls an all-nighter in an attempt to win his firm a contract, Marshall attempts to lure Ted to the roof for a surprise 31st birthday party, which Ted waves off because he thinks Marshall would never schedule two surprise parties in a row. Barney asks for Ted's blessing to pursue Robin, using an obvious analogy involving a suit. Disappointed at his inability to throw a good party, Marshall stands on the ledge of the roof, ready to jump from their apartment roof to the neighboring building's roof (beautifully furnished with a hot tub), about seven feet away. A flashback shows Marshall's attempts over the last years to get the courage to jump. Lily tries to diss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Divine And The Decay ''The Divine and the Decay'' is a 1957 novel by the Welsh writer Bill Hopkins. It was republished as ''The Leap'', in 1984. It tells the story of the leader of a British right-wing populist party who has decided to have his internal rival assassinated. To provide an alibi for himself he stays on a small Channel Island, where he becomes fascinated by a very self-possessed young woman. It was Hopkins' first and only published novel. Plot Peter Plowart, the leader and co-founder of the right-wing populist New Britain Party has decided to have his party co-founder assassinated due to internal conflicts. He travels to Vachau, one of the Channel Islands, to hold a speech and thus give himself an alibi while the assassination is carried out. On the island he finds a young woman whose self-possession intrigues him and makes him want to conquer her. When the woman finds out about Peter's real reason for staying on the island, she decides that he has to die. A power struggle takes place bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]