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Hunted

Hunted: The Demon's Forge, a 2011 video game for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows


Agriculture in Mongolia

Mongolian gazelles were hunted for their meat, and red deer, for their antler velvet.

Assault of Darkness

Celtic Warrior (Stephen Farrelly) - A zombie that appears at the beginning of the film being hunted by Hunter.

Azumi 2: Death or Love

Azumi and her only remaining colleague Nagara (Yuma Ishigaki) find themselves hunted by ninjas hired by General Kanbei for the assassinations they have carried out.

Bactrian deer

In the past they were also hunted by the now extinct Caspian tiger.

Benji the Hunted

Movie critic Roger Ebert gave Benji the Hunted four stars (out of four) as well as a "Thumbs Up." Gene Siskel gave the film a "Thumbs Down," criticizing Ebert for liking the film more than Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket.

Boone and Crockett Club

The club was named in honor of hunter-heroes of the day, Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, whom the club's founders viewed as pioneering men who hunted extensively while opening the frontier, but realized the consequences of overharvesting game.

City of Golden Shadow

He discovers himself in a place similar to the chess-land in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, where he is caught in the battle between the red and the white, as well as hunted by Finch and Mullet.

Crocodylus novaeguineae

This crocodile was over-hunted for its valuable skin in the mid 20th century, but conservation measures have been put in place, it is reared in ranches and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists it as being of "Least Concern".

English Foxhound

Nobles and Royalty had hunted deer for both food and sport, using the Deerhound or Staghound for this purpose.

Espera Feliz

Having located several hunted wild, abundant animals in the place, they perceived that the area close to the São João River, where the Pico da Bandeira is currently located, favored hunting.

Fewmets

T. H. White's novel The Once and Future King makes reference to the "Beast Glatisant", or Questing Beast, constantly hunted by King Pellinore who uses its fewmets not only to track the beast, but to monitor its condition and state of health.

Frederick Stacpoole

Two of his earliest published engravings were after Edwin Landseer, both with other engravers: Peace with T. L. Atkinson (1848), and the Hunted Stag (engraved as Mountain Torrent) with Thomas Landseer (1850) (these both after pictures from the Vernon collection, which went to the National Gallery of British Art).

Ingólfr Arnarson

Ingólfr hunted them down and killed them in the Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar, named after the slaves).

James Earp

Wyatt Earp and James' youngest brother, Warren—with gambler Doc Holliday and gunmen Sherman McMasters, "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson, and Texas Jack Vermillion—then hunted down those they held responsible for the attacks during the Earp Vendetta Ride.

Jean Savy

On the 19/20 July 1943 Savy and Antelme, both now hunted, were expatriated from France by Lysander operation near Tour (Tours?).

Kamokuiki

Her grandfather's sister was Hikuikekualono, the mother of Kahaopulani, who according to legend hid and nursed the baby Kamehameha I during his infancy when he was being hunted down by Alapainui.

Kangaroo leather

Although most species of macropod are protected from hunting by law, a small number of the large-sized species which exist in high numbers can be hunted by commercial hunters.

Kwakwaka'wakw

Many of the marine mammals they hunted for furs and food were sea otters, walruses, seals, and whales.

Labrador wolf

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, there were several confirmed and unconfirmed sightings of the Labrador wolf on the island of Newfoundland which was surprising since the native wolf was hunted to extinction.

Land of Hunted Men

Land of Hunted Men is a 1943 American film directed by S. Roy Luby, one of the Range Busters films.

Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden

Louis George, from 1707 till 1731 was the Royal Colonel of the 4th Circle Infantry Regiment (mixt.) of the Swabian Circle but during the War of the Polish Succession, he hunted dear to his possessions in Bohemia.

Mary Colvin

She hunted with the Blackmore Vale and lent her indoor riding school to the Rutland club (which did not have its own premises).

Matochina

Matochina has existed since at least 1664, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed IV was reported to have hunted near the abandoned fortress and the village located below it.

Maug Islands

In 1903, the island was leased to a Japanese company, who hunted birds for feathers for export to Japan, and from there to Paris.

Metacomet

Hunted by a group of rangers led by Captain Benjamin Church, he was fatally shot by a praying Indian named John Alderman, on August 12, 1676, in the Miery Swamp near Mount Hope in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Neverwinter

An alternate loric explanation for the name is given in Neverwinter Nights 2: When the city's founder (Halueth Never) was hunted to the coast by orcs, he chose the city's site to make his last stand.

New Mexico Department of Game and Fish

At the suggestion of big-game hunter Frank C. Hibben, between 1969 and 1977 the Department of Game and Fish introduced 93 captive bred Oryx into the White Sands Missile Range, intending them to be hunted for sport.

Norwegian Lundehund

The Lundehund is adapted to climb narrow cliff paths in Røst where it originally would have hunted puffins.

Opata people

The Opata also hunted game, especially deer, with bows and arrows, fished in the rivers with spears and nets and gathered wild foods, such as Chenopodium and cactus leaves and fruits.

Operation Bretagne

Four Mobile Groups (Groupes Mobiles, GM) and General de Berchoux's two Amphibian Sub-Groups hunted and engaged the 9th Regiment (Division 304) and the 48th Regiment (Division 320) who were threatening the bishopric of Bui Chu.

Pytchley Hunt

1819-1873 – the Althorp and Pytchley countries were hunted by one pack with a second pack established at Brigstock and until 1920 the master of the Pytchley was in charge.

Religion in Afghanistan

Following this colossal defeat, the last Sassanid Emperor, Yazdegerd III, became a hunted fugitive and fled eastward deep into Central Asia.

Robert Ruark

It is interesting to note that Ruark was booked with Selby because of a desire to use a tracker named Kidogo, who had once hunted with Ernest Hemingway.

Rusty-margined Guan

If not hunted, it tolerates human proximity well and can be found even in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in places such as the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden as well as in the adjoining Tijuca Forest.

Sasha Siemel

He is a legend among sportsmen, having successfully hunted more than 300 jaguars — or “tigres,” as the big cats are colloquially known in parts of Latin America—in the Mato Grosso jungles of Brazil.

Saukrieg

The Carlowitz's feuded with the new bishop and hunted him out of his residenz at Stolpen.

Scott Township, Marion County, Ohio

In the 1920s, the township was a favorite of Jim Thorpe (who played for the Oorang Indians NFL team in LaRue, Ohio) who hunted near the "Wolf Pond" north of Linn Hipsher Road.

Shillourokambos

Fox and persian fallow deer are present as well, but seem to have been hunted.

Silver Sable

In reality, her father hunted Nazis and she forgave him at his deathbed and decided to follow in his footsteps.

The Fossil Hunters

The word "Sheldrake," incised on rock above the old man, names a town on the west side of Saranac Lake where the young Dickinson spent summers exploring the glens near the family's summer cottage, where he hunted for fossils and to which he returned periodically as an adult to visit.

The Heckling Hare

Instead of Elmer Fudd, Bugs is hunted by a dog named Willoughby, but the dog falls for every trap Bugs sets for him until they both fall off a cliff at the end (reported to contain the longest fall in the history of film).

The Knockouts

"Heat for the Hunted" from the album Among the Vultures was chosen 3rd on Sweden's National Radio Program Håkan Persson's Sveriges Radio P3 as the best top ten songs for 2009.

The Knockouts discography

One of the singles, "Heat for the Hunted", from the album Among the Vultures was chosen 3rd on Sweden's National Radio Program Håkan Persson's Sveriges Radio P3 as the best top ten songs for 2009.

The Sicilian

As his reputation and exploits increases, he is hunted both by the Italian government, who form a special taskforce to capture him, and the Mafia, headed by the Capo Di Capi, Don Croce Malo, whose interests and influence have been severely damaged by Guiliano and his band.

United Auburn Indian Community

Grizzlies that lived on the valley floor were greatly feared and rarely hunted.

Vanguard Cave

Carcasses of seals were brought to the cave and comparison with Neanderthal sites at Capellades in Catalonia indicate that after being hunted they were butchered in the cave.

Viratnagar

The town has a number of Mughal structures, including a Chhatri (cenotaph) with some of the earliest surviving murals in Rajasthan, and a lodge where the Mughal emperor Akbar hunted and stayed overnight on his yearly pilgrimage to Ajmer.

Zhu of Xia

In the fifth year of his regime he moved his capital from Yuan to Laoqiu (now Kaifeng); in the eighth year he hunted in the East China Sea and invaded Sanshou; in the thirteenth year his Shang vassal Ming died at He.


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