The popularity of romantic shōjo manga in America has encouraged Harlequin to release manga-styled romantic comics.

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Bears ( grizzly, black, and the Kermode bear or spirit bear — found only in British Columbia ) live here, as do deer, elk, moose, caribou, big-horn sheep, mountain goats, marmots, beavers, muskrat, coyotes, wolves, mustelids ( such as wolverines, badgers and fishers ), Cougar, eagles, ospreys, herons, Canada geese, swans, loons, hawks, owls, ravens, Harlequin Ducks, and many other sorts of ducks.

* In Amanda Sun's Paper Gods series ( beginning with INK, publishing from Harlequin TEEN in February 2013 ), the kami are paranormal creatures descended from Amaterasu and the other kami in the Shinto pantheon, who have the power to control ink and bring drawings to life.

Casorti's son, Giuseppe ( 1749 – 1826 ), had undoubtedly been impressed by the Pierrots they had seen while touring France in the late 18th century, for he assumed the role and began appearing as Pierrot in his own pantomimes, which now had a formulaic structure ( Cassander, father of Columbine, and Pierrot, his dim-witted servant, undertake a mad pursuit of Columbine and her rogue lover, Harlequin ).

A pantomime produced at the Funambules in 1828, The Gold Dream, or Harlequin and the Miser, was widely thought to be the work of Nodier, and both Gautier and Banville wrote Pierrot playlets that were eventually produced on other stages — Posthumous Pierrot ( 1847 ) and The Kiss ( 1887 ), respectively.

He invaded the visual arts — not only in the work of Willette, but also in the illustrations and posters of Jules Chéret ; in the engravings of Odilon Redon ( The Swamp Flower: A Sad Human Head ); and in the canvases of Georges Seurat ( Pierrot with a White Pipe ; The Painter Aman-Jean as Pierrot ), Léon Comerre ( Pierrot ), Henri Rousseau ( A Carnival Night ), Paul Cézanne ( Pierrot and Harlequin ), Fernand Pelez ( Grimaces and Miseries a. k. a. The Saltimbanques ), Pablo Picasso ( Pierrot and Columbine ), Guillaume Seignac ( Pierrot's Embrace ), and Edouard Vuillard ( The Black Pierrot 1890 ).

) In the realm of song, Claude Debussy set both Verlaine's " Pantomime " and Banville's " Pierrot " ( 1842 ) to music in 1881 ( not published until 1926 )— the only precedents among works by major composers being the " Pierrot " section of Telemann's Burlesque Overture ( 1717 – 22 ), Mozart's 1783 " Masquerade " ( in which Mozart himself took the role of Harlequin and his brother-in-law, Joseph Lange, that of Pierrot ), and the " Pierrot " section of Robert Schumann's Carnival ( 1835 ).

One of the gadflies of Aestheticism, W. S. Gilbert, introduced Harlequin and Pierrot as love-struck twin brothers into Eyes and No Eyes, or The Art of Seeing ( 1875 ), for which Thomas German Reed wrote the music.

Vasilij Suhaev and Alexandre Jacovleff | Alexandre Yakovlev: Harlequin and Pierrot ( Self-Portraits of and by Suhaev and A. Yakovlev ), 1914.

* American — Bloch, Albert: Many works, including Harlequinade ( 1911 ), Piping Pierrot ( 1911 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( 1913 ), Three Pierrots and Harlequin ( 1914 ); Bradley, Will: Various posters and illustrations ( see, e. g., " Banning " under Poetry below ); Heintzelman, Arthur William: Pierrot ( n. d .); Hopper, Edward: Soir Bleu ( 1914 ); Kuhn, Walt: The White Clown ( 1929 ); Parrish, Maxfield: Pierrot's Serenade ( 1908 ), The Lantern-Bearers ( 1908 ), Her Window ( 1922 ); Sloan, John: Clown Making Up ( 1909 ).

* HMS Harlequin, one of various ships

* Charlo River, one of two Maritmes ' nesting area of Harlequin ducks

* Benjamin River, one of two Maritmes ' nesting area of Harlequin ducks

The anti-Martinist An Almond for a Parrot ( 1590 ), ostensibly credited to one " Cutbert Curry-knave ," is now universally recognised as Nashe's work, although its author humorously claims, in its dedication to the comedian William Kempe, to have met Harlequin in Bergamo while returning from a trip to Venice in the summer of 1589.

The one exception to this rule of general drabness in colouration is the striking " herring boned " colour pattern of green, brown, black and white that is displayed by the " Harlequin Gecko " ( Hoplodactylus rakiurae ).

Before that he was Chief Scientist at Junglee, where he helped develop one of the first Internet comparison shopping services ; Chief designer at Harlequin Inc .; and Senior Scientist at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

H. P. Lovecraft is also an important touchstone for Ligotti: a few stories, " The Sect of the Idiot " in particular, make explicit reference to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, and one, " The Last Feast of Harlequin ," was dedicated to Lovecraft.

In those early days, only one or two internationals were played there during the season, and it wasn't long before Twickenham became the headquarters of the Harlequin Football Club.

Harlequin manipulates Grundy to attack the members of Infinity Inc., one by one.

It is one of only four waterfowl species that are adapted to life on fast-flowing rivers, the other being the Torrent, the Blue and Harlequin Duck.

It prompted one critic from European Magazine to write: " We have not for several years witnessed a Pantomime more attractive than this: whether we consider the variety and ingenuity of the mechanical devices the whim, humour, and agility of the Harlequin, Clown and Pantaloon ".

The premiere production included a ballet at the end of Act I, Un bassà turco ( A Turkish Pasha ), and one at the end of Act II, Pantomimo tra Pulcinella, Arlecchino e Coviello ( Pantomime between Pulcinella, Harlequin and Coviello ).

While Fate battles back from being flung into far dimensions, Sentinel is drawn away from his partner, Molly / The Harlequin, who opens a box containing one of Neron's candles and accepts a deal to become young again, losing her soul in the process.

As H is a modifier locus of the M locus, in order for the Harlequin pattern to be expressed, one copy of the H allele ( at the H locus ) and one copy of the M allele ( at the M locus ) must be present ( i. e. H / h and M / m ).

Ann states there was only one Harlequin.

Harlequin takes place across multiple eight-way scrolling levels, each one of which is completely unique, featuring different scenery and enemies.

He was known for playing Zanni, comic servant roles, hence his stage name, and is one of the first actors believed to have played the Zanni subtype known as Harlequin ( Arlecchino in Italian ), which subsequently became one the most important leading roles in commedia dell ' arte plays.

In those early days, only one or two internationals were played there during the season, and it wasn't long before the RFU ground became the headquarters of the Harlequin Football Club.

The stiffness of the body meant that he had been dead for some time and not killed in the ten minute interval between being seen in the box and then being found dead on the floor, therefore the figure seen as Harlequin was one of the others.

As a consequence Maya had tried to hide and leave her Harlequin past behind until one day her handicapped father calls for her.

Together they have recorded several projects including the Grammy-winning Brazilian album, “ Harlequin ” in 1985.

Harlequin was arguably the most popular band to come out of Manitoba in the early 80s, producing several radio-friendly hits including " Sweet Things in Life ", " Innocence ", and " Superstitious Feeling ".

Harlequin had offices in: Cambridge, England ( including Barrington Hall and Longstanton ); Edinburgh ; Manchester ; Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Menlo Park, California, and several other places.

Harlequin is set in a world named Chimerica which has several themed locations.

Harlequin ( or Arlecchino in Italian, Arlequin in French, and Arlequín in Spanish ) is the most popularly known of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian Commedia dell ' arte and its descendant, the Harlequinade.

Some characters in Commedia that are associated as Zanni are Arlecchino, Brighella, Scapino-Mescolino and Mezzatino, Scaramuccia, Pulcinella, Pedrolino, Harlequin, Giangurgolo, Tartaglia, Trappolino, and Burratino.

The story of the Harlequinade revolves around a comic incident in the lives of its five main characters: Harlequin, who loves Columbine ; Columbine's greedy father Pantaloon, who tries to separate the lovers in league with the mischievous Clown ; and the servant, Pierrot, often involving a chase scene with a policeman.

At the end of the first part, stage illusions were employed in a transformation scene turning the characters of the pantomime into Harlequin, Columbine and their fellows.

Concepts and characters such as Melusine, Harlequin, Oberon, Morgan Le Fay, et cetera, were first given their definitive shapes at this time.

After Satan's Sabbath, Pendleton licensed the rights to his Executioner characters to the Harlequin publishing group.

A fairy appears to protect the sentimentally more deserving ( Harlequin, after his transformation )— and to change all the characters into the Commedia types.

These shows placed figures from Mother Goose stories in wildly varied settings, always finding an excuse to transform them into the clown characters of traditional commedia dell ' arte ( Harlequin, Columbina, etc .).

The principle male and female characters, also called " the lovers " and typically both played by young women, from the beginning plotline become Columbine and Harlequin, the mother or father of Columbine becomes Pantaloon and the servant character, the Clown.