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The Land
The Land may refer to: Film * ''The Land'' (1969 film), 1969 Egyptian film * ''The Land'' (1974 film), 1974 South Korean film * The Land (2015 film), 2015 short documentary directed by Erin Davis about an adventure playground of the same name * ''The Land'' (2016 film), coming-of-age film directed by Steven Caple Jr. Literature * The Land (Torres novel), a novel by Brazilian writer Antonio Torres published by Readers International. * ''The Land'' (Taylor novel), a novel by Mildred D. Taylor * ''Haaretz'', Israeli newspaper whose name means "The Land" (as in the Land of Israel) * ''The Land'' (newspaper), a rural newspaper in Australia owned by Australian Community Media * ''The Land'' (magazine), a British rural magazine * The Land, setting of Stephen R. Donaldson novels in ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever'' * The Land, setting for Robert J. Sawyer novels in ''Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy'' * The Land (poem), narrative poem by English poet Vita Sackville- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Land (1969 Film)
''The Land'' (, Transliteration, translit. ''al-ʿarḍ'') is a 1969 Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine, based on a popular novel by Abd al-Rahman Sharqawi. The film narrates the conflict between Egyptian peasants and their landlord in the 1930s, and explores the complex relation between individual interests and collective responses to oppression. It was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Mahmoud El-Meliguy as Mohamed Abu Swelam * Yehia Chahine as Hassuna * Ezzat El Alaili as Abd El-Hadi * Hamdy Ahmed as Mohammad Effendi * Tewfik El Dekn as Khedr * Salah El-Saadany as Elwani * Ali El Scherif as Diab * Nagwa Ibrahim (actress), Nagwa Ibrahim as Wassifa References External links * 1969 films 1969 drama films Egyptian drama films 1960s Arabic-language films Films directed by Youssef Chahine Films about landlords Films about farmers 1960s Egyptian films Arabic-language drama films {{Egypt-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever
''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'' is a series of ten high fantasy novels written by American author Stephen R. Donaldson. The series began as a trilogy, entitled ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever''. This was followed by another trilogy, ''The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'', and finally a tetralogy, ''The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant''. The main character of the stories is Thomas Covenant, an embittered and cynical writer, afflicted with leprosy and shunned by society but fated to become the heroic savior of The Land (Stephen R. Donaldson), the Land, an alternate world. In ten novels, published between 1977 and 2013, he struggles against Lord Foul, "the Despiser", who intends to escape the bondage of the physical universe and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy, "the Creator". ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever'' # ''Lord Foul's Bane'' (1977) # ''The Illearth War'' (1978; ''Gilden-Fire''—first published 1981) # ''The Power that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicknames Of Cleveland
There have been several nicknames for the City of Cleveland throughout its history. These include: * "The 216" – Referring to the local area code. * "America's North Coast" or "The North Coast" – Referring to the city's geographic position on the Lake Erie shore. * "Believeland" – Originated in 2007 and culminated in the 2016 NBA Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors. * "The Best Location in the Nation" – Nickname commonly used for Cleveland during the 1950s, also referring to the city's geographic position. * "C-town" or "C-land" – Used by many performing artists and locals to denote Cleveland. * "City of Champions" – Referring to Cleveland's golden age of sports victories in the 1940s and 1950s. * "City of Light" * "The CLE" or simply "CLE" – From the IATA code for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. * "The Cleve" – Nickname used on the TV show ''30 Rock''. * " The Forest City" – Cleveland's oldest nickname. Introduced in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan Women's Music Festival
The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, often referred to as MWMF or Michfest, was a lesbian feminist women's music festival held annually from 1976 to 2015 in Oceana County, Michigan, on privately owned woodland near Hart Township referred to as "The Land" by Michfest organizers and attendees. The event was built, staffed, run, and attended exclusively by women, with girls, young boys and toddlers permitted. From 1991, the festival excluded trans women, adopting a "womyn-born womyn" policy, which drew increasing criticism. The festival was picketed by Camp Trans starting in the 1990s for its exclusionary policy. LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Michigan boycotted the event in 2014. Michfest drew criticism from the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the National LGBTQ Task Force, among others. The festival held its final event in August 2015. History Background The first women's music festivals in the United States were founded in the early 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Land (Epcot)
The Land is a pavilion located in the Epcot, World Nature neighborhood of Epcot, a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. The pavilion is dedicated to Human impact on the environment, human interaction with the Earth, focusing on agriculture, Conservation biology, conservation, and travel. It opened on October 1, 1982, as part of the Phase I features for the grand opening of what was then known as EPCOT Center. It explores how humans can both use the land for their benefit, and how they can also destroy it. Future Technology in better preserving the land is also explored in the pavilion, along with a focus on the celebration of the land itself. The 24 hectare (2.5 million square foot) facility features four attractions; Soarin', Living with the Land, Harvest Theater (including ''Awesome Planet''), and Behind the Seeds Tour. Contributions of Merle Jensen Dr. Merle Jensen, Ph.D., a Professor Emeritus from the University of Arizona's School of Plant Scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Land (song)
"The Land" is a protest song, traditionally sung by the Georgist movement in pursuit and promotion of land value taxation. Its first appearance is from a Chicago Georgist publication, ''The Single Tax'', in 1887 as "The Land Song" Until the late 1970s it was sung at the end of each year's Liberal Assembly and was the party anthem of the Liberal Party, until that party merged with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats. To this day it remains the '' de facto'' anthem of the Liberal Democrats, and is sung as the first song of the Liberal Democrats' Glee Club, at the twice-per-year Liberal Democrat Conference, and is the party anthem of the continuity Liberal Party. During the chorus, the phrase 'ballot in our hand' is accompanied by the collective waving of any paper to hand (usually a '' Liberator'' song book) by the audience. Michael Foot, leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983, recalled to the BBC World Service how he heard and learned the song while growing up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Land (poem)
''The Land'' is a book-length narrative poem by Vita Sackville-West. Published in 1926 by William Heinemann, it is a Georgic celebration of the rural landscape, traditions and history of the Kentish Weald where Sackville-West lived. The poem was popular enough for there to be six print runs in the first three years of its publication aided in part by its winning the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. Background Sackville-West began working on the poem while accompanying her husband Harold Nicolson, who was an English diplomat, to the East. Nicolson records in his diary before leaving that Sackville-West had “an idea of writing a sort of English Georgics”. It has been speculated that the poem was a response to the homesickness that she felt for her home in Kent. Form and content The poem adopts the traditional Georgic structure of the four seasons and is divided into four parts, running from Winter to Autumn, and documenting the agricultural traditions and changing landscape t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy
The ''Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy'' is a series of novels written by Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer. The books depict an Earth-like world on a moon which orbits a gas giant, inhabited by a species of highly evolved, sentient Tyrannosaurs, among various other creatures from the late Cretaceous period, imported to this moon by aliens 65 million years prior to the story. The series consists of three books: ''Far-Seer'', ''Fossil Hunter'', and ''Foreigner''. The trilogy The Quintaglios The Quintaglio are a fictional species of sapient theropods which first appeared in Robert J. Sawyer's short story " Uphill Climb", and later on starred in his ''Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy''. Descended from earth's dinosaurs, (specifically, Tyrannosaurs), they live on a moon orbiting a gas giant that they refer to as "The Face of God". Evolution As stated above, Quintaglios are Tyrannosaurs. It is stated in ''Fossil Hunter'' that they're directly descended from ''Nanotyran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Land (magazine)
The Land is Ours is a British land rights campaign advocating access to the land, its resources, and the planning processes set up in 1995 by George Monbiot and others. History Their first campaign was the occupation of the disused Wisley Airfield in Surrey by 400 people in 1995, from which there was a live broadcast on the BBC's ''Newsnight'' programme. Nearby St. George's Hill is symbolically significant as the site of a 1649 protest, when the Diggers planted vegetables on the common land there. Throughout the summer of 1996, the group set up Pure Genius!!, an eco-village on a derelict former distillery site owned by Guinness in Wandsworth, London. The squatted community was evicted the day before the London Wildlife Trust were meeting to officially designate it as a conservation site containing many species of flowers and birds classed as extremely rare in London. On 1 April 1999, on the 350th anniversary of Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers' occupation of the same hill, Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Land (1974 Film)
''The Land'' () is a 1974 South Korean film directed by Kim Soo-yong. It was chosen as Best Film at the Grand Bell Awards. Plot Based on a novel, the film chronicles the lives of a wealthy land-owning family during the rule of Gojong. Cast *Kim Ji-mee *Lee Soon-jae *Heo Jang-kang *Kim Hee-ra *Hwang Hae *Choi Nam-Hyun *Choe Jeong-min *Woo Yeon-jeong *Yeo Su-jin *Do Kum-bong Do Kum-bong (; August 27, 1930 – June 3, 2009) was a South Korean actress whose fame peaked in the 1950s and 1960s. She starred in more than 283 films. Filmography Awards * 1963 2nd Grand Bell Awards : Best Actress for '' New Wife'' (S ... Bibliography * * Notes External links * 1974 films 1970s Korean-language films South Korean historical drama films Best Picture Grand Bell Award winners Films directed by Kim Soo-yong 1970s historical drama films {{SouthKorea-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Land (newspaper)
''The Land'' is an English language newspaper published in Sydney and later in North Richmond, New South Wales by Australian Community Media. The newspaper commenced publication in 1911. History ''The Land'' first appeared in 1911 as a two penny broadsheet. It was founded by the Farmers' and Settlers' Association of New South Wales after losing their weekly '' Farmer and Settler''. It was later published by Rural Press, which merged with Fairfax Media. In 1930 Harry J. Stephens took up the post of editor; he had been from 1906 to 1920 the driving force behind the paper's chief competitor, ''The Farmer and Settler''. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia. See also *List of newspapers in Australia *List of newspapers in New South Wales This is a list of newspapers in New South Wales in Australia. List of newspapers in New South Wales (A) List of newspapers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
