He was a science writer and broadcaster with the Voice of America radio service and author of three science books: The Quickening Universe: Cosmic Evolution and Human Destiny ( 1987, St. Martin ’ s Press ), The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer ’ s Guide to Interstellar Travel ( 1989, John Wiley & Sons, with co-author Gregory Matloff ), and Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor ( 1991, John Wiley & Sons ).

Highlander II: The Quickening, directed by Russell Mulcahy, was released on November 1, 1991.

1996 saw the release of The Quickening, a slightly more nihilistic and aggressive album that was supported by a music video for " It's a Fact.

After The Police stopped touring in 1984, Copeland established a career composing soundtracks for movies Airborne, Talk Radio, Wall Street, Riff Raff, Raining Stones, Surviving the Game, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Highlander II: The Quickening, The Leopard Son, She's Having a Baby, Taking Care of Business, West Beirut, I am David, Good Burger ), television ( The Equalizer, Dead Like Me, Star Wars: Droids, the pilot for Babylon 5 ( 1993 ), Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee ), and video games ( Spyro the Dragon and The Agents ), along with operas ( Holy Blood and Crescent Moon, commissioned by Cleveland Opera ) and ballets.

" The Quickening ", Bishop's Nebula Award winning novelette of 1981, is, according to Brian W. Aldiss and David Wingrove "… perhaps, a perfect modern fable.

* Spencer MacCallum: The Quickening of Social Evolution: Perspectives on Propietary ( Entrepreneurial ) Communities, Independent Institute, The Independent Review, v. II, n. 2, Fall 1997, 287 – 302.

The clone Fredrickson was eventually killed while fighting Quentin, but because it was indirect ( or perhaps because he was a clone ) there was no Quickening.

His Quickening ritual is the one we see on the opening credits.

Duncan's first Quickening.

< sup > 6 </ sup > Double Quickening with Methos who beheaded Silas at the same time.

Joe knew that with Methos's Quickening, Kalas could be unstoppable.

The two defeated Kronos and Silas together in the same area, resulting in a powerful Double Quickening.

Amazed, he watches Duncan caught at the centre of lightning and explosions as he witnesses, for the first time, a Quickening.

He even saves Tessa from Immortals like survivalist Caleb Cole ( For the first and only time in the series, Tessa sees Duncan caught in the power of a Quickening ) and Andrew Ballin who wanted to kill her after she witnessed him killing his former lover.

For the first time, Richie feels the power of a Quickening, but it is tinged with sadness as Mac tells him that he is now on his own and must leave.

Walker is saved and healed by Quickening, the daughter of the King of the Silver River.

MacLeod, however, decapitated them both, and in the process, through the Quickening, regained his youth.

MacLeod succeeded in taking down the Shield by using the combined energies of his final Quickening from Katana.

" The Quickening " is the 96th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 24th episode of the fourth season.

After a final duel, Colin defeats Octavius, and his Quickening destroys the virus in question.

The first, A Quickening Word ( 1670 ), is well known.

After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the steps of Rathaus Schöneberg were the location where U. S. President John F. Kennedy held his famous speech on 26 June 1963, proclaiming " Ich bin ein Berliner ".

When presidential candidate John F. Kennedy visited the University on October 14, 1960, he gave an impromptu speech on the steps of the Michigan Union that led to a University of Michigan student movement which contributed to the establishment of the Peace Corps.

As a result, U-M gained the nickname " Harvard of the West ," which became commonly parodied in reverse after John F. Kennedy referred to himself as " a graduate of the Michigan of the East, Harvard University " in his speech proposing the formation of the Peace Corps while on the front steps of the Michigan Union.

In this general connection, it is also noteworthy that Sherman and his subordinates ( particularly John A. Logan ) took steps to protect Raleigh, North Carolina, from acts of revenge after the assassination of President Lincoln.

In the personal sense, Sir John Kerr himself became the real victim of the Dismissal, and history has accorded a brutal if poignant truth to Whitlam's declaration on the steps of Parliament House on 11 November 1975: " Well may we say ' God Save the Queen ' – because nothing will save the Governor-General.

Junípero Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 25, 1988, this being one of the steps towards canonization, or promotion to sainthood, in the Catholic Church.

The situation worsened after the imprisonment of John II in England following the French defeat at the battle of Poitiers, and in his absence the Provost of Paris, Étienne Marcel, took steps to improve the capital's defences.

Smith then worked as an itinerant surveyor for many years until one of his employers, Sir John Johnstone, recognised him and took steps to gain for him the respect he deserved.

After taking the shot, the sniper's leg falls through the ceiling tiles and the outraged John pulls him out of the air shaft and beats him up before using the bound SWAT policeman as a human shield as he steps outside to the sight of dozens of policemen pointing weapons at him as well as a large crowd gathered to support his cause.

McSween, who abhorred violence, took steps to punish Tunstall's murderers through legal means ; he obtained warrants for their arrests from the local justice of the peace, John B. Wilson.

But John soon received word that the battle was already over and hastily retraced his steps.

In 1945, John J. Macreedy ( Spencer Tracy ), who lacks the use of his left arm, steps off the Southern Pacific passenger train at the desert hamlet of Black Rock.

The first miracle of the apostles, the healing of the crippled man on the temple steps, occurred because Peter and John went to the Temple to pray ().

John, meanwhile, had taken steps against Michael and his followers.

Alice steps Through the Looking-Glass | through the looking-glass ; illustration by Sir John Tenniel

Quickly returning to the hotel, Stifler hears someone in the supply closet and steps inside, but due to the closet's poor lighting, it is only when he gets inadvertently walked in on that Stifler realizes he's actually having sex with Jim's grandmother, who was placed in the closet by John and Justin to stop her constant complaining.

Icon of The Ladder of Divine Ascent ( the steps toward theosis as described by John Climacus | St. John Climacus ) showing monks ascending ( and falling from ) the ladder to Jesus.

The newly inaugurated President John Adams took steps to deal with the crisis, working with Congress to finish the three almost-completed frigates, approving funds to build the other three, and attempting to negotiate an agreement similar to the Jay Treaty with France.

The term was originally put forth by UN Special Representative for Human Rights and Business John Ruggie, who uses it as an umbrella to cover the steps and processes by which a company understands, monitors and mitigates its human rights impacts.

By his alliance with John, Elector of Saxony, concluded in Gotha on 27 February 1526, he showed that he was already taking steps to organize a protective alliance of all Protestant princes and powers.

In the piazza, at the corner on the right as one begins to climb the steps, is the house where English poet John Keats lived and died in 1821 ; it is now a museum dedicated to his memory, full of memorabilia of the English Romantic generation.

Among the plotters, John Row from Bristol was considered particularly unreliable, and he had a direct connection to the Monmouth household to offer as information ; a number of steps were taken to silence him, and his life was under threat more than once.