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2 unusual facts about The Highlands


The Highlands

East Renton Highlands, Washington, an unincorporated community, which is sometimes simply called The Highlands

Thomas I. Stoner House, a historic house in Des Moines, Iowa, also known as The Highlands


Joseph Eichler

The largest contiguous Eichler Homes development is 'The Highlands' in San Mateo, built between 1956 and 1964.


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Argead dynasty

According to Thucydides, in the History of the Peloponnesian War, the Argeads were originally Temenids from Argos, who descended from the highlands to Lower Macedonia, expelled the Pierians from Pieria and acquired in Paionia a narrow strip along the river Axios extending to Pella and the sea.

Battle of Coille Bhan

General George Wade, in his report to the King in 1725, stated that the Mackenzie of Seaforth tenants, who were formerly reputed to be the richest of any in the Highlands, had now become poor, by neglecting their business, and applying themselves to the use of arms.

Charlie Whelan

Whelan now lives in a cottage in a hamlet called Skye of Curr, located near to the village of Dulnain Bridge, in the highlands of Scotland, with his long-term partner, Philippa Clark.

Cimarrón Uruguayo

However, many remained, especially in the highlands of Cerro Largo.

Dulnain Bridge

Dulnain Bridge is the current terminus of the famous Strathspey Railway, a steam train that runs to Broomhill (Dulnain Bridge) through part of the Highlands from Aviemore and a whole trip takes around an hour and a half, and is run primarily by volunteers.

Georgia–Russia border

As part of Georgia during this period were part of the modern Karachay-Cherkessia (with cities Teberda and Karachaevsk, which was then called Klukhori) and the highlands of modern Chechnya.

Harrison Weir

Weir was a natural history artist and provided some of the illustrations for the Rev John George Wood's "Illustrated Natural History" (1853), served as chief illustrator for Charles St John's "Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands," and designed all of the illustrations for George Fyler Townsend's "Three Hundred Æsop's Fables" (1867).

Henry Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore

Five other Landseers fetched between £892 and £1,680, this for lot 60, Flood in the Highlands, also in his son's bequest but refused by the National Gallery, and now Aberdeen Art Gallery.

History of Laos to 1945

At the height of the revolt, the unrest spread to the highlands of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and was largely concentrated among the minority groups of the Khmu and Hmong.

I Am the Mob

The video was directed by Kevin Allen, director of Twin Town and was filmed in the highlands of Scotland, showing the band playing with toy boats and fishing.

Indian famine of 1896–97

In Chota Nagpur, East India, awareness of the famine came late in 1896 when it was discovered that the rice crop in the highlands of Manbhum district had failed entirely on account of very little rain the previous summer.

Invergarry Castle

In the aftermath of Culloden it was sacked and partially blown up by troops under "Butcher Cumberland" as part of his systematic suppression of the Highlands.

Invergordon

Invergordon is now the mural town of the Highlands and hopes to emulate the success of her mentor in Chemainus, British Columbia.

Inverness by-election, 1954

The Tories chose as their representative the 36 year old, Eton and Sandhurst educated Lieutenant Colonel Neil McLean who had lived in the Highlands as a child.

Jacuí River

The Jacuí River, known as 'Rio Jacuí' in Portuguese, has its origins in the highlands east of Passo Fundo.

Josip Vandot

Vandot is most famous for the creation of the character Kekec, a brave and clever shepherd boy from the highlands of his home region, the Karavanke and Julian Alps.

Kimwarer

One of the nearest villages is Kaptagat, located 10 kilometres west of Kimwarer on the Highlands.

Koteka peoples

The Koteka of West Papua are seven major ethnicities of the highlands of West Papua with a common culture: the Lani, Mee, Amungme, Moni, Damal, Yali, and Nduga.

Lesser short-nosed fruit bat

C. b. altitudinis is confined to the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, from the Cameron Highlands to Gunung Bunga Buah.

Lochgoilhead

The highlands above the village were used for the scene in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love in which Bond (played by Sean Connery) eliminated two villains in a helicopter by firing gunshots at them.

Los Andes no creen en Dios

The film is set in the late 1920s in the small and remote mining town of Uyuni in the highlands of Bolivia, lying between a vast salt desert and towering mountains.

Losaria palu

Its name is a reference to Palu, as the type specimen was captured in the highlands near the city, but it is also known from lower altitudes in the region.

Lukuga River

The river leaves Lake Tanganyika at Kalemie and flows through a gap in the highlands westward through the Tanganyika District to join the Lualaba between Kabalo and Kongolo.

Napier Commission

In the early 1880s agitation began in Skye (then in the county of Inverness) and there it became persistent and threatened to spread throughout the Hebrides and the Highlands.

Neighborhoods in Manchester, New Hampshire

The Highlands is a largely suburban neighborhood that developed along the prewar streetcar line to Pine Island Park.

Novar House

Novar Estate extends to 20,000 acres (80 km²) between the Allt Graad and the River Alness and incorporates farming, forestry, open hill, traditional country sports, fishing, over 150 miles of paths and tracks, a hydroelectric scheme and the first wind farm in the Highlands.

Ottoman Greeks

They were concentrated in what is today modern Greece and Greek Macedonia, western Asia Minor (especially in and around Smyrni), central Anatolia (espacially Cappadocia), northeastern Anatolia (especially in Erzurum vilayet, in and around Trebizond and in the Pontic Alps (roughly corresponding to the medieval Greek kingdom of Pontus, which was situated along the southeastern shores of the Black Sea and the highlands of the interior).

Pisagua, Chile

Pisagua was founded in 1611 after an edict by the Viceroy of Peru which established a base from which it could be possible to stem the illegal traffic of gold and silver flowing from the important mines of Potosí and Oruro, in the Highlands of the "Audiencia of Charcas", to the British and Dutch pirates operating in the Corregimiento de Arica.

R. R. McIan

She too favoured historical subjects from the Highlands, such as Highlander defending his Family at the Massacre of Glencoe.

Red Note Ensemble

Red Note debuted in 2008 with a recording of Eddie McGuire’s Carrochan suite for Delphian Records, since then their annual Spring and Autumn season comprises Scottish tours in the major towns and cities as well as more remote areas in the Highlands and Islands.

Return to Bolivia

Related as a road-movie, the camera follows a pair of Bolivians with their three children, traveling to the edge of the boundary between Jujuy Province and Tarija, and then go to a village in the highlands between Oruro and La Paz.

Rift Valley Province

Tea from the highlands in the Kericho district enjoy a world wide reputation, but horticulture is an important part of the district's economy and cattle raising is also practised to a large extent.

Robert James Shuttleworth

From the autumn of that year until the end of 1832 he studied in the medical faculty of the university of Edinburgh, walking the hospital during the first outbreak of cholera, making a vacation tour in the highlands, and helping his elder stepbrother Blake on his estate at Renville in the west of Ireland during the famine of 1831 and 1832.

Rockaway River

It rises at the eastern edge of Sussex County and within a few hundred yards enters Morris County, in the Highlands, along the northwestern slope of Green Pond Mountain south of Oak Ridge.

San Lorenzo, Ecuador

It is joined by a narrow gauge rail to the city of Ibarra in the Highlands and for many years it was an important port for the export of balsa wood and tagua.

Shawbost

1973 The Highlands and Islands - A Royal Tour, a documentary about Prince Charles' visit to the Highlands and Islands, directed by Oscar Marzaroli, in which Prince Charles is seen visiting MacLeod's woollen mill.

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

They then passed into the highlands and spent several weeks on various islands in the Hebrides, including Skye, Coll, and Mull.

Tocantins River

Two other tributaries, called the Maranhão and Paranatinga, collect an immense volume of water from the highlands which surround them, especially on the south and south-east.

Toraja

The Dutch missionaries' presence in the highlands gave rise to the Toraja ethnic consciousness in the Sa'dan Toraja region, and this shared identity grew with the rise of tourism in the Tana Toraja Regency.

Via Egnatia

Starting at Dyrrachium (now Durrës) on the Adriatic Sea, the road followed a difficult route along the river Genusus (Shkumbin), over the Candaviae (Jablanica) mountains and thence to the highlands around Lake Ohrid.

Washington Highlands

Geography of Washington, D.C., for the highlands of the District of Columbia, USA

White Heart

Anthony Sallee left the band and John Thorn was hired to replace him for the Highlands Tour.