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4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
Iranian nationalism
Iranian nationalism refers to nationalism among the people of Iran and individuals whose national identity is Iranian. Iranian nationalism consists of political and social movements and sentiments prompted by a love for Iranian culture, Iranian languages and history, and a sense... | 35,900 |
4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
been a resurgence of nationalism within the Islamic Republic of Iran in the wake of the Iran student protests, July 1999 and the Republic's autocratic policies over its thirty five-year existence.
# History.
## Origins.
The idea of Iran as a religious, cultural, and ethnic reality goes back as fa... | 35,901 |
4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
impulses gained the upper hand, and Manichaean universalism succumbed to the nationalism of the Zoroastrian Magi. Iranian identity, which up to that point had been essentially of a cultural and religious nature, assumed a definite political value, placing Persia and the Persians at the center of the... | 35,902 |
4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
based mainly on a rural economy, namely the aristocratic landed and warrior classes and the Magian clergy.
## Shu'ubiyya.
Iranian identity came under threat after the fall of the Sassanid Empire and the conquest of Iran by the Arab Muslims.The term Shu'ubiyya refers to a response by Persian Muslim... | 35,903 |
4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
Ferdowsi a Shu'ubi poet.
## Iranian Intermezzo.
The term Iranian Intermezzo represents a period in Middle Eastern history which saw the rise of various native Iranian Muslim dynasties on the Iranian Plateau. This term is noteworthy since it was an interlude between the decline of Abbāsid Arab rule... | 35,904 |
4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
the official state religion and henceforth played an important role in the reconstruction of a new ethno-religious identity for the Iranian people. Furthermore, the rise of the Safavid empire coincided with the rise of the neighbouring Ottoman empire in West Asia and North Africa (and most important... | 35,905 |
4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
apart from Iran and its territories stretching from the North Caucasus to the Persian Gulf, produced from Anatolia to Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
## Qajar Era - start of modern nationalism.
The modern Iranian national movement began in the late 19th century. Iranian nationalism is in... | 35,906 |
4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
in the North and South Caucasus comprising what is now Georgia, Dagestan, Azerbaijan and Armenia to Imperial Russia. These territories had made, for centuries, part of the concept of Iran until their loss.
The initial objectives of these nationalists e.g. ending the feudalistic landholding system, ... | 35,907 |
4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
nationalism in Iran dates back to 1906, when an almost bloodless constitutional revolution created Iran's first parliament.
Reza Shah, helped shape Iranian nationalism by infusing it with a distinctly secular ideology, and diminishing the influence of Islam on Iran. By integrating European legal po... | 35,908 |
4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
the road towards infusing the country with a form of secular nationalism, a path that would eventually bring it into conflict with the country's clerical class.
Iranian nationalism was a deciding force in the 1951 movement to nationalize Iran's oil wealth.
Mosadeqq goal of nationalizing Iran’s oil... | 35,909 |
4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
nationalist discourse often focuses on the pre-Islamic history of Iran. In the 20th century, different aspects of this romantic nationalism would be referenced by both the Pahlavi monarchy, which employed titles such as "Āryāmehr" "Light of the Aryans", and by some leaders of the Islamic Republic th... | 35,910 |
4656467 | Iranian nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian%20nationalism | Iranian nationalism
Movement of Iran (founded 1961, banned, operating inside Iran)
- Marze Por Gohar (founded 1998, banned, exiled)
- Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists of Iran (founded 2000, banned, operating inside Iran)
- Historic parties
- Democrat Party of Iran (1946–1984)
- National Will Party (1944–... | 35,911 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
Immortal (Highlander)
An Immortal is one of a group of fictional characters seen in the movies and series of the Highlander franchise. Since they are immune to disease and stop aging after becoming Immortals, they can live forever and die only when they are beheaded.
# Origin.
The Immortals wer... | 35,912 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
if that guy was alive today?' And that's where everything fell into place — the idea that there are Immortals and they were in conflict with each other, leading secret lives that the rest of us are unaware of."
In the "Highlander" universe, the origin of the Immortals is unknown. Panzer states, "... | 35,913 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
of the two versions is mentioned in later movies or the .
In either version of "Highlander II", Immortals themselves do not know where they come from or for what purpose they exist. In "Highlander", the Immortal mentor Ramírez, when asked by newly Immortal Connor MacLeod about their origins, answ... | 35,914 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
line, deleted from the episode, he says, "They're just having a little fun."
Wherever they come from, the "Highlander" franchise assumes that there have always been Immortals on Earth, well before the beginning of civilization. In the first film, Ramírez's narrative starts, "From the dawn of time... | 35,915 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
them are oral traditions called "the Rules" transmitted from teacher to student. The creator of the Rules is unknown. The Rules are never enumerated, like a body of laws, but they are quoted according to the circumstances. They are taught to newborn Immortals by Immortal mentors called "First Teac... | 35,916 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
there can be only one — the last one will receive all the power of all the Immortals who ever lived
Creative Consultant David Abramowitz says, "When you do a show like this [""], what you do is you make up a lot of it as you go along. The fans used to ask, 'Do you know all the rules from the begi... | 35,917 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
For instance, in "", Immortal Jacob Kell amasses great power by ignoring the Rules of The Game; he recruits several lesser Immortals as disciples, who overpower other Immortals so Kell can take their heads.
## The Game.
The Rules dictate that all Immortals are to fight and behead each other unti... | 35,918 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
from teacher to student, as Ramírez did with Connor in "Highlander". Most Immortals can fight with several kinds of weapons (axe, sickle, machete, mace, etc.), but the most common is the sword. Consequently, Immortals are usually very fond of their weapons, and almost always have them handy. The s... | 35,919 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
breaks the sword in a fight with Duncan, showing neglect of the sword and henceforth demonstrating the student-teacher relationship throughout the series.
The Rules also dictate that when one challenges another to combat, the two Immortals are supposed to duel one-on-one. For example, in "The Gat... | 35,920 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
Jacob Kell in "", Slan Quince's modified sword which fires a dagger from its hilt, and Zachary Blaine keeping a gun to slow down his adversaries. If the Rules are interpreted strictly, once two Immortals begin dueling, no outside interference is permitted, even to save a friend or innocent. For ex... | 35,921 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
Zachary's head while he and Duncan were dueling. The Quickening that the winning Immortal receives at the end of a fight is extremely draining, and leaves the recipient unable to protect themselves, allowing another Immortal an easy kill. Therefore, some Immortals will travel in pairs or groups to... | 35,922 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
hunting full-time; some others, like Methos, only fight when they are challenged, to defend their head (which seems to be rather common with extremely old Immortals). Immortals are free to play the Game or not and some chose to "retire" for various reasons. Duncan MacLeod temporarily retires in 18... | 35,923 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
but they are in particular danger of losing their heads. A safe option for Immortals who wish to retire from the Game is to live on Holy Ground. However, this leaves them vulnerable to the Hunters.
## Holy Ground.
The Rules forbid the Immortals to fight on Holy Ground. "Holy Ground" is defined a... | 35,924 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
Ground rule was a tradition. "Highlander II: The Quickening" calls it the "Golden Rule". In the "Highlander: The Series" episode "", Duncan MacLeod says, "Even the most evil of us wouldn't desecrate Holy Ground." In "" (1994), Horton is attacked by Duncan MacLeod in the Dawson family crypt and say... | 35,925 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
shrine between Connor MacLeod and antagonist Kane, Connor's blade shatters and the power of the shrine is revealed to Kane. In "", Colin MacLeod is struck by lightning for refusing to put down his sword inside Stonehenge. Mortals are not bound by the Rules and are allowed to behead Immortals on Ho... | 35,926 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
Ramirez taught you!" Immortals wishing to retire from the Game often chose to live on Holy Ground. In "Highlander: Endgame", Immortal Kell disregards this rule and slaughters a group of Immortals that were hidden in stasis on Holy Ground called the Sanctuary. This caused some controversy among fan... | 35,927 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
was there a beheading.
## The Gathering.
In "Highlander", Ramírez describes the Gathering to Connor MacLeod in this way: "When only a few of us are left, we will feel an irresistible pull towards a far away land, to fight for the Prize." "The Gathering" is the reunion of the last few Immortals l... | 35,928 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
supposed to happen during the first season for continuity with the first film. In all subsequent "Highlander: The Series" seasons and "Highlander" movies and series, the Gathering has not happened yet and the Game continues. In "Highlander: Endgame", the Gathering is said to be set in "a far off t... | 35,929 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
everything!" He later tells Brenda Wyatt, "I can love and have children, live and grow old," all previously unavailable to him because Immortals are sterile and cannot live anywhere for very long without raising suspicion. Ramírez tells him, "You are generations being born and dying. You are at on... | 35,930 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
will fall into anarchy."
In "Highlander II: The Quickening", Connor MacLeod has become mortal after the Gathering and uses his vast knowledge to help mankind to solve its environmental problems. Conversely, in the "Highlander: The Series" episode "The Gathering", at a time when the Gathering has ... | 35,931 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
an "ultimate battle of good and evil".
# Quickening.
When Immortals are beheaded, there is a powerful energy released from their bodies which is called a "Quickening". Lead "Highlander: The Series" actor Adrian Paul explains, "The Quickening is the receiving of all the power and knowledge anothe... | 35,932 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
beheading. Panzer explains that if "an Immortal is decapitated by something other than the sword of the Immortal he was fighting, (...) what we thought was, as long as an Immortal is present, he gets the Quickening."
If an Immortal is beheaded and there is no Immortal nearby to receive the Quicke... | 35,933 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
a "Dark Quickening". The converse can also happen; Darius is the only known example of a "Light Quickening".
An Immortal knows when a Quickening happens nearby and he knows which Immortal is dead, as demonstrated by Duncan MacLeod in "Highlander: The Series". He falls on his knees when his friend... | 35,934 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
a lot more license. But this being television in the early 1990s, we couldn't have a lot of body parts flying around. So, we tried to use something that created the idea that somebody got their head cut off, but that it was more like a jolt of light came out of the head, and the lightning flew aro... | 35,935 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
slashes towards us on a POV shot, representing the coup de grâce which is about to be delivered. In any event what we will NOT see, is a decapitation. No head leaves the body, indeed no sword strikes the neck. Instead, we cut to: The Quickening is a blinding flash of blue light emanating from what... | 35,936 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
Heresh Clay and Luther are black; Annie Devlin and Sean Burns are Irish; May-Ling Shen, Jin Ke and Kiem Sun are Chinese. There are comparatively few female Immortals. Abramovitz explains, "You have to be realistic. Women survive in a warrior's game by being different kinds of warriors. (...) You c... | 35,937 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
Duncan MacLeod and Richie Ryan, but it is not known if all of them are. Connor MacLeod, for example, is never said to be one; in "Highlander: Endgame", he is seen protecting his aged mother from being burned as a witch, though whether or not he might have been adopted is never addressed. The matte... | 35,938 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
eyes, for it was you the peasant brought in, she cringed back in fear... and said you were a changeling... left by the forest demons... and we should cast you out for the dogs!" In "", Alfred Cahill says of his stepfather, "he knew I was different the first time he set eyes on me."
Immortals are ... | 35,939 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
a permanent diagonal scar on his face as a result of his head having been cleaved in two, causing his First Death. They do not feel the Buzz but they trigger a very faint Buzz in full-grown Immortals. Full-grown Immortals know what pre-Immortals really are when they encounter them.
There are a fe... | 35,940 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
is a reason so few exist: "he'll never be big enough or strong enough", or in other words, they will never be able to adequately protect themselves. Trapped in a small body for eternity, child Immortals tend to either become easy pickings, beheaded at an early time by evil Immortals, or if they li... | 35,941 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
has met child Immortals, and experience has taught him to not turn his back on the ones that have survived more than one lifetime. Duncan once warned Amanda about the child Immortal Kenny that she met again after 800 years, but she disregarded his advice, still considering Kenny to be as innocent ... | 35,942 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
to trigger their immortality, pre-immortals will age and die as other humans. According to the Watcher CD, "non-natural" and "violent" death are not due solely to weapons. Physical trauma (car crashes, falling off a cliff, runaway carts) can trigger immortality as well as being struck by lightning... | 35,943 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
Felicia Martins in the "Highlander: The Series" episode "Free Fall"; he says, "It's only when we die that we become Immortal." They come back to life some time later, fully healed. This is called the "First Death". Most Immortals feel their resurrection is a miracle. In "Avenging Angel", Duncan Ma... | 35,944 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
time. He was killed in battle and then miraculously revived... I thought it was an old wives tale."
New Immortals are vulnerable because they do not know about the Game and they can get beheaded before they learn what they are. Immortal reactions to their first deaths vary - one character in the ... | 35,945 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
does not learn about their situation until they meet another Immortal willing to teach them. This Immortal is referred to as the "First Teacher". The First Teacher teaches the new Immortal the Rules of the Game, how to use a sword and the tactics needed to win, as Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez ... | 35,946 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
live forever, but in practice, it depends on their ability to defend their head against an opponent. Joe Dawson puts it so in his Chronicle about Alfred Cahill: "'Immortality' is a relative thing. A new Immortal has the chance to live for untold millennia - maybe even as long as the mythical Metho... | 35,947 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
at the age of twelve and has retained the body of a 12-year-old ever since. Immortals are sterile and they have perfect dentition. While Immortals have only slightly more than normal human abilities in "Highlander" movies and series, in "Highlander" animated movies and series they have superhuman ... | 35,948 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
"The Gathering" describes it as, "We hear something we will describe as the Highlander Buzz. Perhaps it is accompanied by a moving camera, an odd angle... something. Whatever it is, [Duncan] MacLeod suddenly senses it, strongly." The Buzz is something felt, not heard. In the above described scene,... | 35,949 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
before he was actually dead. Immortals who are not yet aware of the meaning of the Buzz often experience it as a headache, like Colin MacLeod, or migraine. Temporarily dead Immortals do not trigger a Buzz.
The Buzz is signalled by a brief sound effect in the movies and series. On "Highlander: The... | 35,950 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
stays pretty much the same, then every once in a while they want something different for a Buzz." Sound effect variations on the Buzz include, according to Gronick, "Just getting a note of choir and then looping it, so it extends. Or we've taken the highs out of it and echoed it. Or one has an aut... | 35,951 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
shortly thereafter. However, Immortals often shrug off injuries that would likely kill normal human beings (theoretically because their bodies are so accustomed to pain), particularly in the movies (The Kurgan shrugging off multiple assault rifle shots to the chest, Connor walking through fire in ... | 35,952 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
Cloud uses poison gas to incapacitate his opponents. Bill Panzer said, "One of an Immortal's greatest fears is to be buried alive and probably unfound for thousands of years."
In another episode of the series, Duncan encounters an Immortal whom he had a hand in marooning on a deserted island (the... | 35,953 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
flashing across the wound. An Immortal cannot regenerate or replace a limb or a major portion of the body when it is separated from the body. Panzer states about the "Highlander: The Series" episode "", in which Xavier St. Cloud's left hand is severed by Duncan MacLeod's blade, "We hold the questi... | 35,954 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
hours, talking about 'could we do this?', 'could we not do this?', and finally we decided to go for it." However, the separated portions can be reconnected to the body provided that the Immortal has the pieces together and is in the condition to perform the reconnection. In "Highlander III: The So... | 35,955 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
the immortal mentor of Connor MacLeod from "Highlander III: the Final Dimension", possesses the power of illusion. Immortal John Garrick has had clairvoyant powers since before his first death while Cassandra spent a thousand years refining her healing talent into a new skill: the power of hypnosi... | 35,956 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
much like ordinary people," and most of them do the same things as mortals. "Some make a lot of money. Some become Terrorists like Annie Devlin who is an IRA terrorist leader. Some become policemen because they like to fight. Some become great lovers. Some like Duncan MacLeod become righters of wr... | 35,957 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
This show ["Highlander: The Series", season 2, "Run For Your Life"] showcases how great it can be to be an immortal, how a man can, in three lifetimes, go from being a slave to being someone with hopes and dreams of becoming a professional baseball player, to finally someone who had hopes and drea... | 35,958 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
and people are gonna start to notice." Connor MacLeod muses, "Do you think we ever lived like this, like a tribe, together with a common language, a reason and a name for each living thing? Did we once belong somewhere, a time, a place, however briefly?"
In the same way, relationships between Imm... | 35,959 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
they are supposed to play the Game, and trusting another Immortal can result in a severed head. "If it came down to us two, would you take my head?" asks Connor MacLeod to Ramirez, his mentor.
Immortals rarely tell mortals about their immortality and even more rarely about the Game. Relationships... | 35,960 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
they can't have children." In this episode Tessa Noël, Duncan MacLeod's lover, gets to know a little girl and becomes very fond of her. She says, "For a while there, just for a few hours... I felt like she was mine. I liked how it felt. But she's not... I have my own life and it's more than enough... | 35,961 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
ago by some mortals who knew about Immortals and grew concerned about the winner of the Prize. Panzer says they have been "observing Immortals, recording their history but not interfering, for thousands of years." The Watchers have developed statistics about the potency of individual Immortals. Am... | 35,962 |
4656381 | Immortal (Highlander) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Immortal%20(Highlander) | Immortal (Highlander)
ency of individual Immortals. Among the Watchers there is a small group of people called the Hunters. As Panzer states, "the Hunters have decided that Immortals are a bad thing, they are a scourge, they are a plague on the Earth, and they are unnatural and immoral and must be removed. And they hav... | 35,963 |
4221003 | Nina Li | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nina%20Li | Nina Li
Nina Li
Nina Li may refer to:
- Nina Li Chi, Chinese actress currently married to Jet Li
- Li Nina, Chinese aerial skier | 35,964 |
4220981 | Akratitos F.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Akratitos%20F.C. | Akratitos F.C.
Akratitos F.C.
A.P.O. Akratitos is a Greek football club from Ano Liosia, Athens. They currently play in the Alpha Division of the local West Attica championships, which is the fifth level of the Greek football pyramid. They maintain a quite strong academy of youngsters.
# History.
Akratitos spent the... | 35,965 |
4220981 | Akratitos F.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Akratitos%20F.C. | Akratitos F.C.
Ergotelis which took place in Makedonikos Stadium, Thessaloniki. The following season Akratitos were re-promoted to Alpha Ethniki.
The 2005-06 season was meant to be their last in the Greek top-flight, as they finished last and were relegated again to the Beta Ethniki, but they decided to withdraw from ... | 35,966 |
4220981 | Akratitos F.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Akratitos%20F.C. | Akratitos F.C.
European matches.
In July 2003 Akratitos took part in the Intertoto Cup. They played against Finnish team AC Allianssi for the second round, using their youth team, and were eliminated.
# Stadium.
The team is using the Yannis Pathiakakis Stadium as their home ground. Until the death of Giannis Pathiak... | 35,967 |
4220981 | Akratitos F.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Akratitos%20F.C. | Akratitos F.C.
am AC Allianssi for the second round, using their youth team, and were eliminated.
# Stadium.
The team is using the Yannis Pathiakakis Stadium as their home ground. Until the death of Giannis Pathiakakis, it was known as Akratitos Stadium. It has a capacity of 4,944.
# Honours.
Beta Ethniki
- Runner... | 35,968 |
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Always Crashing in the Same Car
"Always Crashing in the Same Car" is a song by David Bowie from his album "Low" from 1977.
The song's lyrics express the frustration of making the same mistake over and over. The narrator of the song recounts driving at high speed in circles around a hot... | 35,969 |
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he returned to his hotel and ended up driving around in circles in the hotel's underground garage. It's also reported that "Jasmine" refers to Iggy Pop, who was supposedly with Bowie in the car at that time.
There are two verses to the piece, although three were planned. In the studio, ... | 35,970 |
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Barrett album The Madcap Laughs, as well as the James Joyce poem "Golden Hair" which Barrett put to music. He also noted that at the time of "Low"'s recording, Brian Eno was in possession of the Farfisa organ Barrett had used on the Pink Floyd track "Matilda Mother", and that a Farfisa w... | 35,971 |
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at BBC Radio Theatre, London on 27 June 2000 was released on the bonus disc accompanying the first releases of "Bowie at the Beeb" in 2000. This version contains an extended opening featuring acoustic guitar.
# Personnel.
- David Bowie: Vocals, ARP Synthesizers
- Ricky Gardiner: Lead ... | 35,972 |
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The Fall and Rise of Stevie No Wonder" (2002)
- Danny Michel - "Loving the Alien: Danny Michel Sings the Songs of David Bowie" (2004)
- Id Guinness - "Cure for the Common Crush" (2007)
- Chairlift (band) - "" (2010)
- The Plastic FanTastics - "Acknowledgments, Pt. 1" (2011)
- Geoff ... | 35,973 |
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e of the chapter "Christmas Eve, One".
- Media scientist Dr. Annette Bitsch's German language book on Jacques Lacan's mathematics of the unconscious is titled after the song in the original English.
# Sources.
- Greatorex, Johnathan. "Just a Mortal With Potential." Teenage Wildlife. N... | 35,974 |
4220999 | Producers Guild of America Awards 2005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Producers%20Guild%20of%20America%20Awards%202005 | Producers Guild of America Awards 2005
Producers Guild of America Awards 2005
The 17th Producers Guild of America Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 2005, were held on January 22, 2006. The ceremony at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Hollywood, California was hosted by Queen Latifah. The nominati... | 35,975 |
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- Grant Heslov
- "Walk the Line" - James Keach and Cathy Konrad
### Animated Feature.
"' "" - Claire Jennings and Nick Park
- "Chicken Little" - Randy Fullmer
- "Corpse Bride" - Tim Burton and Allison Abbate
- "Madagascar" - Mireille Soria
- "Robots" - Jerry Davis, John C. ... | 35,976 |
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"Desperate Housewives"
- "Two and a Half Men"
- Television, Long-Form:
- "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - HBO
- Television Series or Special, Non-Fiction:
- "60 Minutes - CBS (Jeff Fager)
- Television Series or Special, Variety:
- "The Ellen DeGeneres Show - syndicate... | 35,977 |
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eter Sellers - HBO
- Television Series or Special, Non-Fiction:
- "60 Minutes - CBS (Jeff Fager)
- Television Series or Special, Variety:
- "The Ellen DeGeneres Show - syndicated (Ellen DeGeneres, Mary Connelly, Ed Glavin, Andy Lassner and Karen Kilgariff)
## Stanley Kramer A... | 35,978 |
4221004 | Salpausselkä (ski jump) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salpausselkä%20(ski%20jump) | Salpausselkä (ski jump)
Salpausselkä (ski jump)
Salpausselkä is a ski jumping venue in Lahti, Finland. The hills are K116, K90, K64, K38, K25, K15, K8 and K6. | 35,979 |
4221010 | Versus God | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Versus%20God | Versus God
Versus God
Versus God is a full-length album released by Dillinger Four.
# Track listing.
- 1. "Who Didn't Kill Bambi?" – 2:06
- 2. ""Get Your Study Hall Outta My Recess."" – 1:50
- 3. "Maximum Piss & Vinegar" – 2:17
- 4. "Last Communion" – 2:53
- 5. "Suckers, Intl. Has Gone Public" – 2:02
- 6. "Tota... | 35,980 |
4220987 | The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Mahatma%20Letters%20to%20A.P.%20Sinnett | The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett
The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett
The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett is a book published in 1923 by A. Trevor Barker. () According to Theosophical teachings, the letters were written between 1880 and 1884 by Koot Hoomi and Morya to A. P. Sinnett. The letters were previously quote... | 35,981 |
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most authoritative work of a theosophical nature ever made accessible to the public. It is simply transcendent in its importance."
# Criticism.
Max Müller (Indologist and philologist) wrote that if "Mrs. Blavatsky would have tried to confess openly her small faults and indiscretion... | 35,982 |
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the SPR and a research worker of paranormal phenomena Richard Hodgson wrote in "The Age":
"I was enabled while in India to secure various Mahatma documents for my own examination, and after a minute and prolonged comparison of these with Madame Blavatsky's handwriting, I have not th... | 35,983 |
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partition separating Mr. Damodar's room from the staircase. Further inquiries concerning the 'Mahatma' writing remain to be made from professional calligraphic experts in London. I may allude, however, to some specimens of the K.H. writing furnished by Mr. Sinnett for examination; th... | 35,984 |
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of Madame Blavatsky, how far she was assisted in their production by confederates, how much of their substance was plagiarized from other writers, are questions which closely concern the intellectual ability of Madame Blavatsky, and which lie somewhat outside the present brief sketch... | 35,985 |
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exonerate the SPR committee from blame for publishing this thoroughly bad report. They seem to have done little more than rubber-stamp Hodgson's opinions; and no serious attempt was made to check his findings or even to read his report critically. If they had done so (...) the case w... | 35,986 |
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with slanted statements, conjecture advanced as fact or probable fact, uncorroborated testimony of unnamed witnesses, selection of evidence and downright falsity."
He concluded that Hodgson's case against Blavatsky is not proven, and that there is no evidence that the "Mahatma Lette... | 35,987 |
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on the other hand, claim that these and similar books attacking Blavatsky and her claims about the existence of such masters are based on poor quality research, specious arguments, and poorly supported speculation. So, from a scholarly point of view, the existence of such masters is ... | 35,988 |
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Society. Russian Intrigue or Religious Evolution?" // "The Age" (Melbourne, Australia), // 12 September 1885.
- Jenkins, Philip (2000) "Mystics and Messiahs", NYC: Oxford University Press.
- Johnson, K. Paul (1994) "The Masters Revealed: Madam Blavatsky and Myth of the Great White ... | 35,989 |
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PhD Thesis. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing. Chap. VI "The Mahatmas and Their Letters", pp. 146–174. .
- Müller, F. Max (1893) "Esoteric Buddhism" // "The Nineteenth Century" (London), May 1893.
- Patterson, George (1884) "The Collapse of Koot Hoomi" // "The Madras Christi... | 35,990 |
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ргского ун-та. .
- Клейн, Лев Самуилович (2011) Рациональный взгляд на успехи мистики // "Здравый смысл", 2011, № 2 (59).
- Соловьёв, Владимир Сергеевич (1890) Рецензия на книгу Е.П. Блаватской "The Key to Theosophy".
# Further reading.
- George Linton and Virginia Hanson: "Reade... | 35,991 |
4221017 | Veterans Memorial Stadium (Pago Pago) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Veterans%20Memorial%20Stadium%20(Pago%20Pago) | Veterans Memorial Stadium (Pago Pago)
Veterans Memorial Stadium (Pago Pago)
Veterans Memorial Stadium is a football stadium located in Pago Pago Park, in Pago Pago, American Samoa. The 10,000 capacity venue is one of the smallest stadiums in Oceania, and serves as American Samoa's national stadium. It is the home venu... | 35,992 |
4221028 | Avarua Tereora Stadium | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avarua%20Tereora%20Stadium | Avarua Tereora Stadium
Avarua Tereora Stadium
The Tereora Stadium also known as the National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Avarua, Cook Islands. It is currently used mostly for rugby and football matches. The stadium holds 5,000 people and was originally built in 1984/85. The stadium was upgraded in early 1986... | 35,993 |
4220933 | Jax-Ur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jax-Ur | Jax-Ur
Jax-Ur
Jax-Ur is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, usually as an adversary of Superman. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist George Papp, the character first appeared in "Adventure Comics" #289 (October 1961).
# Fictional character biography.
## Pre-Crisis.
Jax-Ur was... | 35,994 |
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was to launch a nuclear missile to destroy a passing space rock. If this test proved successful, Jax-Ur would then commence the build-up of a massive, privately held nuclear arsenal with which he would overthrow the Kryptonian government, and place the entire planet under his dominion. In the "World of Krypton" ... | 35,995 |
4220933 | Jax-Ur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jax-Ur | Jax-Ur
show him in his ghostly Phantom Zone form, except during rare escapes. He was often depicted plotting against Superman with fellow Phantom Zone inmates General Zod and Faora Hu-Ul. Although he possessed typical Kryptonian super-powers when on Earth, the out-of-shape Jax-Ur was no match for Superman in combat.
J... | 35,996 |
4220933 | Jax-Ur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jax-Ur | Jax-Ur
a series of serpentine forms, until he became a Medusa-like creature, and turned Black Zero to stone with his gaze before the villain could destroy Metropolis in revenge for Superman foiling his plan to destroy Earth. Jax-Ur then shattered Black Zero's body, avenging Krypton, and willingly returned to the Phanto... | 35,997 |
4220933 | Jax-Ur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jax-Ur | Jax-Ur
Guide to the Man of Steel", suggesting he may have indeed existed but presumably had died either before or during Krypton's destruction since the Phantom Zone was used as storage rather than a prison.
Jax-Ur's first post-Crisis appearance is in "Action Comics" #846, written by Geoff Johns and Richard Donner. He... | 35,998 |
4220933 | Jax-Ur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jax-Ur | Jax-Ur
who have adopted human identities to help further Zod's goals on Earth. He is using the cover of Dr. Phillings, and works for S.T.A.R. Labs as one of the world's top xenobiologists, while secretly conducting his own gruesome studies on Earth's lifeforms, as well as researching Kryptonian DNA to find links to the... | 35,999 |
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