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Harlan's Holiday

Harlan's Holiday's stud career is profiled in the June 22, 2013 issue of The Blood-Horse.


Aaron Harlan

Harlan was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress, reelected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress, and elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1859).

Alma, Nebraska

Alma's status as county seat was challenged by residents of Orleans, but an 1884 Nebraska Supreme Court decision affirmed Alma's status as seat of Harlan County.

Aquanaut's Holiday: Hidden Memories

Given the fairly simple gameplay, the English version is understandable for teens and older players, but young children may be confused by the significant Engrish evident in the translation.

Beggar's Holiday

An updated version of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, it focuses on a corrupt world inhabited by rakish mobsters and their double crossing gangs, raffish madams and their dissolute whores, panhandlers and street people as they conduct their dirty business, ply their trade, and struggle to survive in brothels, shanty towns, and prisons.

In 2004, Dale Wasserman, one of the musical's producers and the author of Man of La Mancha, teamed with the Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, California to create a revamped, updated, and radically rewritten version that toned down much of the original's social criticism and political humor.

C. Allen Parker

He then earned a Juris Doctorate magna cum laude from Columbia Law School in 1983, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review.

CDS Global

The company employs over 2,500 individuals worldwide, with sites located on three continents; Australia (Sydney), Europe (Market Harborough; Brighton), and North America (Boone, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Harlan, Iowa; Tipton, Iowa; West Des Moines, Iowa; Wilton, Iowa; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Prescott, Arizona; New York City; Markham, Ontario; and Montreal).

Cumberland River

Clover Fork once flowed through downtown Harlan and merged with Martin's Fork at the intersection of Kentucky Route 38 and US Route 421, until a flood control project in 1992 diverted it through a tunnel under Little Black Mountain, from which it emerges in Baxter and converges with Martin's Fork.

Clover Fork starts on Black Mountain in Holmes Mill, near the Virginia border, and flows west in parallel with Kentucky Route 38 until it reaches Harlan.

Doc Bruder

Wood Harlan "Doc" Bruder (February 5, 1901 – November 13, 1952) was a professional football player for the Buffalo Bisons in 1925 and the Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1926.

Gunfighter

Etymologist Barry Popik has traced the term "gun slinger" back to its use in the 1920 Western movie Drag Harlan.

Harlan Collins

Paul Harlan Collins, more often known as Harlan Collins, is a composer, arranger, musician, and writer.

Harlan County War

With contributions by John dos Passos, Samuel Ornitz, and others, Dreiser produced a report called Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields.

Harlan Huckleby

Harlan Charles Huckleby (born December 30, 1957) is a former professional American football running back and kick returner who was drafted by the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL).

Heart of the World

The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, a collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison

Isaac Hays

Hays argued that his name (Saurodon) for a New Jersey specimen should replace Richard Harlan's Saurocephalus, on the grounds that Harlan's 1924 description of a specimen from Iowa was inaccurate.

Jack Rule, Jr.

He defeated Jack Nicklaus in the 1956 U.S. Junior Amateur semi-finals but lost to Harlan Stevenson in the finals.

James Harlan

James S. Harlan (1861–1927), American lawyer and commerce specialist, son of John Marshall Harlan

Jan Harlan

Jan Harlan (born in Karlsruhe, Germany on May 5, 1937) is a film producer and the brother of Christiane Kubrick, director Stanley Kubrick's widow.

Jessie Harlan Lincoln

Jessie Harlan Lincoln (November 6, 1875 – January 4, 1948) was the second daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln, the granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln, and the mother of Mary Lincoln Beckwith and Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, the last undisputed Lincoln descendant.

Jessie Harlan Lincoln was born on November 6, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois to Mary Eunice Harlan and Robert Todd Lincoln.

Jews and the slave trade

Drescher, Seymour, (EAJH) "Jews and the Slave trade", in Encyclopedia of American Jewish history, Volume 1, Stephen Harlan (Ed.), 1994, page 414-416.

John H. Mickey

He married as his first wife, on September 10, 1867 at Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, Morinda McCray, born April 8, 1849 at Fayette, Indiana, the daughter of James McCray and Mary Harlan.

Jones Bros.' Buffalo Ranch Wild West

On Friday, October 23, 1914 at Harlan, Kentucky, the show was shot out of town by irate locals, and the next day, Oct. 24 at Barboursville, Kentucky the show halted.

Jud Süß

Jew Suss: Rise and Fall, 2010 German film which depicts events behind 1940 production, with actors portraying Harlan, Marian, Goebbels, etc

Kleinstocks

The three brothers' names are Harlan, Sven and Eric, and they were created by Scott Lobdell and Brandon Peterson and first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #298 (March 1993).

Max D. Barnes

Barnes was a BMI Award-winning songwriter and a writing partner of Harlan Howard, Merle Haggard, Vince Gill, his son Max T. Barnes, and sister Ruthie Barnes Steele.

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

Tati biographer David Bellos has described the film as "Sublime," and said that, "It was through this film that I first fell in love with France. I think that is true of a lot of people."

On its release in the United States, Bosley Crowther's review said that the film contained "much the same visual satire that we used to get in the 'silent' days from the pictures of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and such as those."

Les vacances earned Tati an Oscar nomination (shared with Henri Marquet) for Best Original Screenplay.

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Ide said parts of the film are reminiscent of City of God, The Straight Story, and said two scenes are "clumsily borrowed" from Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

While he is on the farm, the bicycle is run over by a passing tank.

National Student League

Inspired by the example of Waldo Frank and Theodore Dreisers writers delegation, the group decided to send a student delegation to Harlan County to provide relief for the striking miners and to investigate conditions in the area.

Office of Future Plans

Other members are the guitarist/cellist Gordon Withers, the bass guitarist Brooks Harlan and the drummer Darrek Zentek (formerly of Kerosene 454 and also a member of Channels).

P. M. Pasinetti

The Beverly Hills "Pasinetti House", built in 1959, was designed by Romanian-born, modernist architect Haralamb H. Georgescu, sometimes noted as Harlan Georgesco.

Patrick Harlan

A native of Colorado Springs, Colorado and a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in comparative religion, Harlan first came to Japan on a tour with the Harvard Glee Club in 1993.

Robertson Aircraft Corporation

The 1957 motion picture The Spirit of St. Louis featured an RAC DH-4 mailplane in flying sequences as well as Maj. Robertson (played by James Robertson, Jr.) and company Air Mail pilots Lindbergh (James Stewart) and Harlan A. "Bud" Gurney (Murray Hamilton) among its characters.

Spurlock

Harlan, Kentucky, whose post office was named Spurlock during the Civil War

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Jan Harlan managed to get many of Kubrick's collaborators for interviews, including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Keir Dullea, Arthur C. Clarke, Malcolm McDowell, Peter Ustinov, Jack Nicholson, György Ligeti and Matthew Modine.

The Edge of Forever

"The City on the Edge of Forever", a Star Trek episode written by Harlan Ellison

The Front Runner

The difficult, drawn-out process of their coming out as a couple (and Harlan's as an individual) in the intensely homophobic world of amateur athletics takes up most of the book, throughout which the sport - and particularly Billy's determination to qualify for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal - plays as large a part as the characters' homosexuality.

The Image in the Mirror

"The Image in the Mirror" is short story by Dorothy L. Sayers, featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and published as the first story in Hangman's Holiday.

The Telescope

The magazine was first published as a quarterly under the editorship of Harlan Stetson, director of the Perkins Observatory in Ohio.

They Live by Night

Many minor roles were played by actors and friends of Ray's from his time in the New York theater, including Marie Bryant from Beggar's Holiday (the nightclub singer), Curt Conway (the man in the tuxedo at the night club), and Will Lee (the jeweler).

Today You Die

Harlan Banks (Steven Seagal) is a Robin Hood kind of thief who has always picked his own jobs and tried to pull heists that would leave him room to help out others.

United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, 2008

Republican incumbent Steve Scalise won against Democratic nominee Jim Harlan, a businessman.

V-Nee Yeh

He graduated from Milton Academy, Cum Laude '77;Williams College, BA' 81 Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude and Columbia Law School, JD 1984, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar He is a co-founder and honorary chairman of Value Partners Group Limited, the second largest in Asian based fund manager.


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