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The Keep (1962)
A keep is fortified tower in a castle. Keep, KEEP, or The Keep may also refer to: Literature * The Keep, a fictional location on Arrakis in the 1965 ''Dune'' series * The Keep (Wilson novel), ''The Keep'' (Wilson novel), a 1981 novel by F. Paul Wilson ** The Keep (comics), ''The Keep'' (comics), a 2006 limited series based on the Wilson novel * The Keep (Egan novel), ''The Keep'' (Egan novel), a 2006 novel by Jennifer Egan Music *The Keep (Happy Rhodes album), ''The Keep'' (Happy Rhodes album) (1995) *The Keep (Tangerine Dream album), ''The Keep'' (Tangerine Dream album), a 1997 soundtrack album Places * The Keep, Brighton, opened 2013, an archive and historical resource centre in East Sussex, England * The Keep, Dorchester, (c. 1880), a museum and former barracks in Dorset, England Software * Google Keep, a 2013 note-taking software program * Keep (app), a 2015 Chinese mobile fitness app Other uses *Keep (surname), including a list of people with the name *KEEP, a radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep
A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word ''keep'', but usually consider it to refer to large towers in castles that were fortified residences, used as a refuge of last resort should the rest of the castle fall to an adversary. The first keeps were made of timber and formed a key part of the motte-and-bailey castles that emerged in Normandy and Anjou during the 10th century; the design spread to England, Portugal, south Italy and Sicily. As a result of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, use spread into Wales during the second half of the 11th century and into Ireland in the 1170s. The Anglo-Normans and French rulers began to build stone keeps during the 10th and 11th centuries, including Norman keeps, with a square or rectangular design, and circular shell keeps. Stone keeps carried considerable political as well as military importance and could take a decade or more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep (surname)
Keep is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Keep (1826–1907), American railroad financier * Angela Keep (born 1981), Australian actress * Henry Keep (American football) (1872–1965), American football player * Henry Keep (businessman) (1818-1869), American banker and railroader * Henry Keep (politician) (1863–1905), Australian politician * Jason Keep (born 1978), American basketball player * Judith Keep (1944–2004), American judge * John Keep (1781–1870), American trustee of Oberlin College * Nathan Cooley Keep (1800–1875), American dentistry pioneer * Robert Porter Keep (1844–1904), American teacher {{surname, Keep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keeper (other)
Keeper or Keepers may refer to: People and characters Persons * Keeper (surname) * William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (1908–2000), American novelist and editor Roles * Archivist * Beekeeper * Gamekeeper * Gatekeeper * Greenkeeper * Keeper of the Privy Purse * Keeper of the Royal Archives * Legal guardian * Lighthouse keeper * Museum curator * Prison warden * Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh * Zookeeper Sportspeople * Goalkeeper, a player who protects a goal * Quarterback keeper, a slang term for a play in American football * Wicket-keeper, a position in cricket Fictional characters * In the game of Quidditch from Harry Potter, a position that defends the goal hoops * Keeper (Transformers), a comics character * Keeper, a space wizard from the TV show '' Dino Charge'' * Keeper, see Drakh, a parasitic creature in the universe of ''Babylon 5'' Videogame characters * Keepers are deadly destroyers built by the ancient Progenitors, in the '' Homeworld 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep Case
A keep case or poly-box is a type of packaging, most commonly used with DVDs and Blu-ray videos (and sometimes CDs). Besides DVD-Video films, keep cases are very common with most disc-based video games since the PlayStation 2, and they are also found on many PC titles and MP3-CD audiobooks (all use discs that are the same basic dimensions as a DVD). Products using keep cases The first products to be released in keep cases were VHS tapes, though most were stored in less expensive pressboard sleeves. In the days before video games were released on optical media, cartridges would rarely come packaged in specially designed plastic keep cases with lugs inside to hold the instruction manual, as opposed to pressboard boxes. Cartridges and cards for the Master System platform were the first video games to be packaged in any kind of keep case. The vast majority of Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games would come in a plastic keep case (roughly the size of a VHS case), but they were later pack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keeping Emulation Environments Portable
Keeping is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles Keeping Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 – 16 May 1988) was an English people, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he creat ... (1924–1988), British illustrator, children's book author and lithographer * Damien Keeping (born 1982), Australian rules football coach * Frederick Keeping (1867–1950), British racing cyclist * Jack Keeping (born 1996), English cricketer * Janet Keeping, leader of the Green Party of Alberta * Jeff Keeping (born 1982), Canadian Football League defensive tackle * Max Keeping (1942–2015), Canadian television news anchor * Michael Keeping (1902–1984), English footballer and manager (son of Frederick Keeping) * Tom Keeping (1942–2020), Canadian politician * Walter Keeping (1854–1888), British geologist and museum curator See also * * K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep Cottage
Keep Cottage, also known as Keep Cooperative is an 1839 post-Victorian tudor revival mansion owned and maintained by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio Oberlin () is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located about southwest of Cleveland within the Cleveland metropolitan area. The population was 8,555 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Oberlin is the home of Oberlin ..., United States. Originally home to the Reverend John Keep, the house underwent a serious renovation in 1911 in order to transform it into a college dormitory. As of October 1965, it is a rental property of Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, the second largest student cooperative in the United States. It is named after its primary trustee, the reverend John Keep, an abolitionist who cast the deciding vote that let African-American students attend Oberlin College, the first institution to do so. History The contract for the construction of Keep Cottage was awarded to Mr. George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Keep (video Game)
''The Keep'' is a role-playing video game developed and published by Cinemax Cinemax is an American pay television network owned by Home Box Office, Inc., a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched on August 1, 1980, as a "maxi-pay" service to complement the offerings of its sister premium network, HBO (Home Box .... Gameplay The game is a dungeon crawler consisting of 10 levels, each a floor of Watrys's Tower. To complete a level a player must get through multiple puzzles, traps and enemies. The game features realtime combat and players can use magic spells. A spell can be cast with the help of runes that players find across levels. Different mixtures of runes make different spells. Plot The evil wizard Watrys is becoming more powerful and the ruling council of the land ignores the threat he poses. Eventually, Watrys burns down the village of Tallia and abducts all of the children to mine magic crystals for him. A nameless hero then sets off to a tower where Watrys l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Keep (Mayfair Games)
''The Keep'' is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Mayfair Games in 1984. Plot summary ''The Keep'' is an adventure scenario intended for player character levels 9-12 based on the plot of the film '' The Keep''. The character must defend against the evil of the Keep starting in the age of magic, and then in the Middle Ages, and finally in 1941 while the Nazis control central Europe. The adventure takes place over three sections, with all events occurring in different time periods in the same location. The first portion is set an ancient age, involving a battle between Molasar and its armies against the Order of the Dragon. The second portion continues the exploration of the mysterious Keep in the year 1476, and the final portion is set in 1941 involving a confrontation against the German army. The book contains a special section to simplify running the final encounter, including game statistics for weapons, equipment, and non-player characters for the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Keep (film)
''The Keep'' is a 1983 supernatural horror, supernatural horror film written and directed by Michael Mann and starring Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Jürgen Prochnow, Alberta Watson and Ian McKellen. Set in Romania during World War II, it follows a group of Nazism, Nazi soldiers who unleash a malevolent supernatural force after setting up camp in an ancient stone fortress in the Carpathian Mountains. It is an adaptation of the 1981 The Keep (Wilson novel), novel of the same title by American writer F. Paul Wilson. The musical score was composed by Tangerine Dream. Filmed in Wales and at Shepperton Studios during the autumn of 1982, ''The Keep'' suffered numerous post-production problems, mainly the death of special effects supervisor Wally Veevers before he completed his work on the film. The film was also subject to significant editing troubles, as Mann's original director's cut was 210 minutes long, which its distributor, Paramount Pictures, required be cut to 120 minutes. After t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KEEP
A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word ''keep'', but usually consider it to refer to large towers in castles that were fortified residences, used as a refuge of last resort should the rest of the castle fall to an adversary. The first keeps were made of timber and formed a key part of the motte-and-bailey castles that emerged in Normandy and Anjou during the 10th century; the design spread to England, Portugal, south Italy and Sicily. As a result of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, use spread into Wales during the second half of the 11th century and into Ireland in the 1170s. The Anglo-Normans and French rulers began to build stone keeps during the 10th and 11th centuries, including Norman keeps, with a square or rectangular design, and circular shell keeps. Stone keeps carried considerable political as well as military importance and could take a decade or more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep (app)
Keep is a Chinese mobile fitness app. The app was made available for downloading on 4 February 2015. Keep was developed by the company Beijing Calories Technology, which was founded by the college student Wang Ning. The app allows users to view fitness videos and to buy fitness equipment. It contains a social networking service so that customers can share exercise routines with each other. Keep reached one million users downloads by 105 days after its launch and had over 200 million users in September 2019. History Keep is an app created by the company Beijing Calories Technology Co Ltd which was founded in 2014 by Wang Ning, a college student in his fourth year. Wang said his motivation for creating the app stemmed from his losing after he developed an exercise regimen through online research. He chose the name "Keep" because according to Xinhua News Agency, "he believes keeping, or persistence, is the core of losing weight and starting up a company". Keep became availa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrakis
Arrakis ()—informally known as Dune and later called Rakis—is a fictional desert planet featured in the ''Dune'' series of novels by Frank Herbert. Herbert's first novel in the series, 1965's ''Dune'', is considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, and is among the best-selling science fiction novels in history. In ''Dune'', Arrakis is the most important planet in the universe, as it is the only source of the drug melange. Melange (or, "the spice") is the most essential and valuable commodity in the universe, as it extends life and makes safe interstellar travel possible (among other uses). Harvesting the spice is also hazardous in the extreme, due to both the harsh climate of the planet and the fact that melange deposits are guarded by giant sandworms. Arrakis is also the home of the Fremen, a people conditioned by the planet's harsh environment, and becomes the capital of the Atreides Empire. Environment and the spice A desert planet with no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
