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n. 1 The central part of a region defined by geographical or non-geographical criteria. 2 The part of a region considered essential to the viability and survival of the whole.
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n. the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture
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Heartland is an American country music-oriented digital broadcast television network that is owned by Luken Communications and broadcast out of Chattanooga, TN. Launched on April 16, 2012, the network began in 2012 as a revival of The Nashville Network (TNN) that existed as a basic cable and satellite television network from March 7, 1983 to September 24, 2000.
Heartland is a 1979 American film, directed by Richard Pearce, starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell. The film is a stark depiction of early homestead life in the American West. It is based on a memoir by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, titled Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914).
Set in southwestern Wyoming, where Stewart homesteaded, the movie was filmed in central Montana.
The soundtrack features New Orleans clarinetist George Lewis playing the hymn, " What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
In 1980 the film was featured as a "Buried Treasure" (a film that received little attention during its initial run) on an episode of the TV show, Sneak Previews, produced and hosted by the film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel.
Heartland is the debut album from Melbourne band Real Life, released in Australia in 1983. The album was picked up for distribution in the United States in the same year by MCA Records and released worldwide by Curb Records in 1984.
The album won Best Debut Album for 1983 in Australia (Countdown Music and Video Awards 1984).
The first single released from the album, "Send Me an Angel", is unquestionably Real Life's most well known song. The song reached the top 5 in Australia and got as far as number 29 in the Billboard Hot 100. In Germany, "Send Me An Angel" reached no. 1. The song has become Real Life's signature song, having been re-released on several occasions throughout their career, most notably in 1989 where a remixed version performed better than the original on the Hot 100, peaking at no. 26.
The second single, "Catch Me I'm Falling", also fared well in the United States, peaking at no. 40. In Germany the song reached no. 9 and Australia no. 8.
This album was re-released in the early 2000s (decade), and this updated version contained four bonus tracks, including the original extended version of "Send Me an Angel."
Heartland was an Australian television drama series that ran on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1994. It ran for thirteen episodes and starred Cate Blanchett and Ernie Dingo. The show was also known as Burned Bridge in some countries.
Heartland is the third studio album by English electronic music group Client, released on 21 March 2007. It is Client's only album to feature Emily Mann (known as Client E) as a member of the band. A limited edition of the album was also released in Germany, including a bonus DVD of all the group's music videos released up to that point.
Heartland or Heartlands may refer to:
Heartland is the fourth album by Celtic rock band Runrig. It was released in 1985, and was their first output in which English songs exceeded the number of Gaelic ones.
"Heartland" is a song written by Steve Dorff and John Bettis, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. It was released in January 1993 as the second single from his soundtrack album Pure Country. The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart.
Heartland is a 25-novel series created by Lauren Brooke. The series was ghostwritten by Linda Chapman and began in 2001 with the novel Coming Home. The series is about a 15-year-old girl named Amy Fleming, who lives in Calgary on a horse ranch called Heartland, where she, friends, and family heal and help abused or mistreated horses. The owners of Heartland attempt to help the abused horses by using psychologically-based therapies instead of more traditional training methods. Throughout the series, the main character, Amy, finds healing along with the horses that she treats every day. Eventually, Amy is faced with tough decisions that put Heartland's future and fate in her hands. The target readership is ages 8 to 12. In 2007, a TV series based on the novels debuted in Canada on the CBC network.
Heartland is an American country music band from Huntsville, Alabama. It originally consisted of Jason Albert ( lead vocals), Craig Anderson ( rhythm guitar), Todd Anderson ( drums), Chuck Crawford ( fiddle, background vocals), Mike Myerson ( lead guitar), and Keith West ( bass guitar, background vocals). Signed to Lofton Creek Records in 2006, the band topped the country charts that year with its debut single " I Loved Her First", also the title track to its debut album. After their next five singles failed to chart within the Top 40, all members except Albert and Crawford left, with former solo artist Chad Austin joining.
Heartland is an American television drama series that aired on TNT in 2007. The series was based in the high-stakes world of heart-transplant surgery at "St. Jude" hospital in Pittsburgh based largely on the transplant center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. It followed a recently separated couple who work both sides of the trade: She convinces the survivors and loved ones to donate the organs of the newly or about to be deceased; he races against time to implant the valuable organs into patients who are struggling against time and their failing bodies to hold on just long enough to receive the life-saving gifts. It was produced by Warner Horizon Television.
On Monday, July 23, Heartland was moved to its new time beginning at 8:00pm Eastern/7:00pm Central followed by The Closer and the series premiere of Saving Grace.
On Friday, August 31, Heartland was canceled by TNT due to disappointing ratings.
Heartland is a Canadian and U.S family drama television series which debuted on CBC on October 14, 2007.
The series is based on the Heartland book series by Lauren Brooke, but it changes the setting from Virginia, USA (in the original novels) to the small fictional town of Hudson, Alberta located in the foothills of the Alberta Rockies. Heartland follows sisters Amy and Lou Fleming, their grandfather Jack Bartlett, and Ty Borden, through the highs and lows of life at the ranch.
As of the episode shown on March 29, 2015, Heartland surpassed Street Legal as the longest-running one-hour scripted drama in the history of Canadian television. And will be celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year (2016), and season 10 will begin airing October 2, 2016.
Heartland is a novel by Daren Shiau, first published by SNP Editions in 1999, and republished by Ethos Books in 2002. The book won the 1998 Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award and is Shiau's debut novel. An existential work, it deals with the paradox of rootedness and rootlessness of Singaporeans born after the Japanese Occupation. The book is now selected as a set text for GCE 'O' and 'N' levels.
In 2015, Heartland was selected by The Business Times as one of the Top 10 English Singapore books from 1965–2015, alongside titles by Arthur Yap, Goh Poh Seng, Philip Jeyaretnam and Amanda Lee Koe.
Heartland is a comic book one-shot published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics in March 1997. It was written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Steve Dillon. It is a spin-off from the Hellblazer comic book series, and features the character of Kit Ryan, a longtime supporting character in that series. Although Heartland is technically a spin-off of Hellblazer, the central character of that series, John Constantine, makes no appearance.
Heartland is a video game by Odin Computer Graphics released in for several home computer systems.
Heartland is an album by the Michael Stanley Band released in 1980. It reached #86 on the Billboard 200 album chart in 1981.
Heartland is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from March 20, 1989 until June 12, 1989. The series stars Brian Keith as an old-fashioned Nebraska farmer who moves in with his daughter ( Kathleen Layman), son-in-law ( Richard Gilliland) and their family. Keith's real-life daughter Daisy Keith plays one of his grandchildren. The show was created by Don Reo, and was produced by Impact Zone Productions and Witt/Thomas Productions in association with Touchstone Television.
"Heartland" is a song by rock band U2. It is the thirteenth track on their 1988 album Rattle and Hum, and was included in the film of the same name. The band began writing "Heartland" in 1984 during The Unforgettable Fire sessions, and it was worked on again during The Joshua Tree sessions.
It is the only track from the album not performed in concert on the Lovetown Tour, which began almost a year after Rattle and Hums release.
Heartland is the third full-length album by Canadian indie rock artist Owen Pallett, released January 12, 2010 on Domino Records. It's the first of Pallett's records to be released under his own name. Since the album was his first to be released in Japan, he wished to avoid generating confusion with the Final Fantasy video games from Square Enix, and to avoid infringing on any trademarks. Pallett stated that his previous albums will be repackaged and reissued under his own name at some point.
The record was mixed by New York producer Rusty Santos.
The album was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize.
Heartland is an American term referring to states of the Union that—as in the words of commentator Ronald Brownstein—"don't touch an ocean," whether the Atlantic or Pacific. At least as early as 2010, however, the term Heartland is used not only to refer to the Midwestern United States, but also many so-called " red states", including those of the Bible belt.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the mean center of population in the U.S. in 2010 was in or around Texas County, Missouri. In 2000 it had been northeast from there, in Phelps County, Missouri. It is projected for the mean center of population to leave the Midwest and enter the Western U.S. by the middle of the twenty-first century. (Note that when Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the Union in 1959, the geographic center of the United States moved from Smith County, Kansas to Butte County, South Dakota.)
The use of the term "heartland" to apply to the American Midwest did not become common until sometime in the 20th century.
Heartland was a long-running series where, in each episode, presenter Gary McCormick explored a Kiwi community. Location and local legend are relayed as McCormick (or occasionally Annie Whittle, Maggie Barry, or Kerre McIvor) interacts with the natives, most famously, tiger slipper-shod Chloe of Wainuiomata. The popular, award-winning series, was inspired by a collaboration — Raglan by the Sea — between McCormick and director Bruce Morrison; it connected mostly-urban Kiwis with faraway corners of the country, and a homely sense of shared identity.
Usage examples of "heartland".
For almost two hundred years they had occupied their big piece of the Anatolian heartland, a rich place and roomy, and lived the lives of Gauls, heedless of the cultures surrounding them.
Coming from directors and actors whom the South and the Heartland have revered, this approach probably had more effect than the more overt antiracism of directors such as Norman Jewison or Denzel Washington.
It went on that way, each sentence interrupted by cheers and applause, as Baraka told how the men had found out plans for a sneak Israeli attack on Lobynia with atomic pistols, and they set out deep into the heartland of Israel, even into Tel Aviv, and foiled the plan and laid much of that city waste before they were finally overwhelmed by the entire Israeli army.
This novel-and the previous three books in THE FIRST AMERICANS Series-has shown how man first came into the Americas by way of the high Arctic, eventually traversed the upper reaches of the Yukon, penetrated the high passes of the Richardson Mountains, reached the shores of the MacKensie River and-facing the impenetrable mile-high walls of the Cordilleran and Laurentide ice sheets-at last turned south along the eastern spine of the Rocky Mountains and headed straight into the heartland of Ice Age America.
Korsov booked the first flight he could get into the heartland of Ukraine.
The heartland of the HMB movement remained the four central provinces of Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, and Bulacan, although the organization had extended to areas of Nueva Vizcaya and parts of Pangasinan, Laguna, Bataan, and Quezon.
If Bates has actually lived on Heartland for forty years, hell be in possession of information that cannot be found in the few official reports at our disposal.
One thing was clear, verability, and nonexistent radar signature, the bouncers though: there was a map outline of North America on would be a last-ditch method to get to the heartland of the which a location had been marked--somewhere in south- Soviet Union to deliver a fatal blow in case of all-out war.
American girl from a small town in the American heartland dies in the middle of her first boff, right?
Right now he was thinking himself especially clever for daring to raid this deep into the heartland of the Seljuk empire, almost on the doorstep of Baghdad itself.
The resurgence of economic growth through the opening of new trade routes leads eventually to an industrial revolution, the breakdown of the Imperial heartland into regions that speak dialects approaching separate languages (Gallian, Hispa-nian, Britannian, "Roman" [Italian), etc.
Replacing fixed and abrupt lines on a flat space would be a shifting pattern of ecoregions and buffer entities, like the Kurdish and Azeri buffer entities between Turkey and Iran, the Turkic Uighur buffer between Central Asia and inner China (itself distinct from coastal China), and the Turkic, Pathan, and Punjabi regions between Russia and the heartland of India.
When it collapsed, there would be nothing to prevent the full force of the enemy from turning north to the heartland of the valley and Corvallis itself.
Legal hemp will return billions of dollars worth of natural resource potential back to the farmers and bring millions of good jobs in energy production to America's heartland.
The wizard's finger drifted east of the Heartlands, across the land of Impiltur, to the eastern end of the Inner Sea.