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Red and Queen
* The Red Queen ( Through the Looking-Glass ), a character in Through the Looking Glass
" Elsewhere in the garden, Alice meets the Red Queen ( now human-sized ), who impresses Alice with her ability to run at breathtaking speeds — a reference to the chess rule that queens are able to move any number of vacant squares at once, in any direction, making them the most " agile " of the pieces.
Alice arrives and seats herself at her own party which quickly turns to a chaotic uproar ( much like the ending of the first book ) in which Alice finally grabs the Red Queen, believing her to be responsible for all the day's nonsense, and begins shaking her violently with all her might.
( By thus " capturing " the Red Queen, Alice unknowingly puts the Red King — who has remained stationary throughout the book — into checkmate, and is allowed to wake up.
) Alice suddenly awakes in her armchair to find herself holding the black kitten, whom she deduces to have been the Red Queen all along, with the white kitten having been the White Queen.
At the end of the book they are associated with the Red Queen and the White Queen respectively in the looking-glass world.
* Red Queen
The 1959 film Donald in Mathmagic Land includes a segment with Donald Duck dressed as Alice meeting the Red Queen on a chessboard.
With great reluctance he gave up Red House, and in 1865 established himself under the same roof with his workshops, now relocated to Queen Square, Bloomsbury.
This phenomenon supports the " Red Queen hypothesis — which states that interactions between species ( such as host and parasites ) lead to constant natural selection for adaptation and counter adaptation.
This is known as the Red Queen hypothesis ( Van Valen 1973 ).
Fifty authors and artists contributed to the book, which was fronted by Cecil Beaton's portrait of the Queen and was sold in aid of the Red Cross.
Roughly around the same time, back on Earth in San Francisco the Red Queen and her Sisterhood attack the X-Men ; first trapping a sleeping Emma in a psychic barricade by Lady Mastermind.
Stars featured in the film included Charlotte Henry as Alice, W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle ( Grant's star was still on the ascent at the time ), Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as The Hatter, Charles Ruggles as The March Hare, and Baby LeRoy as The Joker.
* Edna May Oliver: Red Queen
* Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen, pub 2010.
** The Red Queen ( 2010 )
Other cultivars include ' Paprika ', ' Cerise Queen ' and ' Red Beauty ', and the many hybrids of this species designated Achillea x taygetea, including ' Appleblossom ', ' Fanal ' and ' Hoffnung ', are useful garden subjects.
The collection also featured the Christopher Golden stories " The Queen of Hearts ", " All's Fair ", " Paint the Town Red " and " Who Made Who?
The Red Branch warriors, including Cúchulainn and the sons of Usnech, appear as main characters in The Swan Maiden ( 2009 ), a novel by Jules Watson about the life of Deirdre The Raven Queen tells more of the story, mainly Maeve's view.
During his university days, he also had a bit role of an usher's courier who was bringing mail to the hotel in the movie White King, Red Queen ( 1992 ).

Red and reveals
In the shooting script for the film ( under the production title " Red Son "), Lex Luthor reveals to a weakened Superman that his henchman actually set Superman up to believe that Krypton still existed by sending false signals.
The Red Dragon scheme reveals the truth!
Before throwing Captain America out of the helicopter, Red Skull reveals his true identity.
Wonder Girl reveals her metahuman powers to Red Robin as they fight N. O. W. H. E. R. E forces.
Wolverine fights his way through them only to find that the Red Right Hand's members have all committed suicide, while a pre-recorded message reveals that the Mongrels were all his illegitimate children.
Explaining the procedure's real purpose afterward, the Red Queen reveals her promised resurrections to be untried and uncertain ; this causes some of her members to react violently against her, but she convinces them to continue following her.
The next morning, after spending the night resting in Misty's mansion, Misty leads Red to her Gym and reveals herself to be the Gym Leader.
Wildfire reveals that his containment suit was built out of the Red Tornado's robotic shell.
Silver Cyclone reveals that, in contrast to Red Tornado's desire to learn about and mingle with humanity, he hates organic life and wishes to destroy it.
Morrow ( what was revealed to be an android version of him ) is destroyed by Red Volcano, he reveals to Red Tornado, Red Inferno, and Red Torpedo that he plans to set off a dormant supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park.
Lipsky reveals that his father barred him from book-reading sessions at the Mansion of Red Roses due to his " lack of talent ".
Later Madman reveals that he simply increased his mass to grab it, and used the time to masquerade as a researcher in the Red Skull's " New World Order " organization.
In Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, Lister believes Kochanski to be dead, but a conversation between Lister and two children in a hallucination caused by a despair squid reveals that her death is a cover story and that in truth she dumped Lister by fleeing Red Dwarf in a Blue Midget shuttle and that Kryten hid the truth by claiming she was sucked out of an airlock.
In the midst of the battle, a flashback reveals that Victor had rebuilt Red Tornado using self-replicating nanites similar to the ones that Prometheus infected Roy with after cutting off his arm, thus making the android indestructible.
As Dynaman reveals the truth himself he proceeds to kill several heroes including Tarantula, Human Bomb, Sportsmaster ( a reformed villain ), Doll Man and Red Bee, as well as disabling Doctor Mid-Nite by destroying his goggles that help him see in the daylight and Hawkman by tearing off his wings.
This Red Sea demon reveals himself as Amelouith who claimed to be the demon who supported the Egyptian magicians against Moses and who hardened Pharaoh's heart but had been caught with the Egyptian host when the sea returned and held down by this pillar until Ephippas came and together they could lift it.
The Red Wattlebird is a large ( up to 35 cm ) grey-brown honeyeater with red eyes, distinctive red wattles either side of the neck and white streaks on the chest and belly, which reveals a bright yellow patch towards the tail.
Todd reveals himself to Batman as the murderous vigilante, the Red Hood ( though the Dark Knight was secretly aware that it was really his former partner all along since their encounter at the cemetery ).
* The Red Dragon Scheme reveals the last chapter of Yung Wing's life.
The phrase Purple America refers to the belief that a more detailed analysis of the voting results of recent United States national elections reveals that the U. S. electorate is not as polarized between " Red " America ( Republican ) and " Blue " America ( Democratic ) as is often depicted in news analysis.

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