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Highland dress
Highland dress is Scotland's traditional garb, built on the kilt and tartan: belted plaid origins, 1746 proscription, 1782 repeal, and the 1822 George IV visit that revived clan tartan fashion.
Highland Europe
Highland Europe is a growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 and headquartered in London with a second office in Geneva, investing in European technology scale-ups.
Highland Europe Technology Growth Limited Partnership
Highland Europe Technology Growth Limited Partnership is a Jersey-domiciled venture capital fund managed by Highland Europe, a growth-stage technology investor spun out of Highland Capital Partners in 2012.
Highland Football League
Highland Football League (Scottish Highland League, Breedon Highland League): semi-professional football league in northern Scotland, founded 1893 at Inverness, Britain's most northerly senior championship, tier 5 of the Scottish pyramid with 18 clubs and a promotion play-off to SPFL League Two.
Highland games
Highland games: Scottish cultural festivals featuring heavy events such as caber toss, stone put, hammer, and weight throws, plus dancing and piping; held worldwide, governed in Scotland by the RSHGA.
Highland midge
Highland midge (Culicoides impunctatus, Gaelic Meanbh-chuileag), a 1.4 mm Palearctic biting midge causing up to 90% of human bites in Scotland; bivoltine, wind-limited, breeding in boggy acidic ground, a major nuisance to tourism and forestry.
Highland Papua
Highland Papua (Papua Pegunungan), Indonesian province created by Law 16/2022, capital Wamena (Jayawijaya), landlocked central highlands of New Guinea; eight regencies, extreme isolation, special autonomy, ongoing separatist conflict.
Highland Park Ford Plant
The Highland Park Ford Plant was Ford's factory in Highland Park, Michigan, where the moving assembly line was first used and the Model T was mass-produced from 1910 to 1927.
Highland Park parade shooting
Highland Park parade shooting, July 4, 2022 Highland Park, Illinois mass shooting; Robert E. Crimo III fired 83 rounds from a rooftop, killing seven and wounding 48; life sentence, 2023 Illinois assault weapons ban.
Highland Park, Illinois
Highland Park, Illinois: Lake County city on Lake Michigan about 25 miles north of Chicago, population about 30,000; home of the Ravinia Festival and site of the July 4, 2022 parade shooting.
Highland Park, Los Angeles
Highland Park is a Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood in the Arroyo Seco, annexed by the city in 1895. Known for the Highland Park-Garvanza HPOZ, Metro A Line service, its Latino community, and gentrification.
Highland Rape
Highland Rape is Alexander McQueen's autumn/winter 1995–96 fashion collection, shown March 1995 in London, referencing the Jacobite Risings and Highland Clearances, introducing McQueen tartan and bumster trousers, and establishing his international reputation amid misogyny controversy.
Highland Rim
Highland Rim: undulating Mississippian limestone plateau surrounding the Nashville (Central) Basin in Middle Tennessee, extending into Kentucky and Alabama; largest Tennessee karst region, key aquifer, about 9,300 sq mi in-state.
Highlander (film)
Highlander (1986) is a Russell Mulcahy fantasy action film starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, and Clancy Brown about immortal swordsmen fighting for "the Prize"; a box office flop that became a Queen-soundtracked cult classic spawning a franchise and a Henry Cavill reboot.
Highlander (franchise)
Highlander is a media franchise from the 1986 Russell Mulcahy film about immortal warriors fighting by beheading for the Prize, spanning five films, the 1992-1998 TV series with Duncan MacLeod, an anime, and a Henry Cavill-Chad Stahelski reboot.
Highlander (upcoming film)
Highlander (2027) is a fantasy action reboot of the 1986 cult classic, directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Henry Cavill as Connor MacLeod, with Russell Crowe as Ramirez and Dave Bautista as the Kurgan; produced by Amazon MGM's United Artists, filming began February 2026 after an injury delay.
Highlander II: The Quickening
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Russell Mulcahy's sequel to Highlander, stars Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, and Michael Ironside; its Zeist alien-origin retcon, Argentine shoot, and 0% Rotten Tomatoes score made it a notorious flop, later re-edited as the Renegade Version.
Highlander III: The Sorcerer
Highlander III: The Sorcerer is a 1994 fantasy action film, the third entry in the Highlander franchise. It stars Christopher Lambert and was released in the US in 1995.
Highlander: Endgame
Highlander: Endgame (2000), the fourth Highlander film, directed by Doug Aarniokoski, unites film Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) and TV Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) against Jacob Kell; a critical and box-office failure with a longer Producer's Cut on DVD.
Highlander: The Series
Highlander: The Series (1992–1998), a Franco-Canadian syndicated science fantasy series starring Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod, cousin of film hero Connor MacLeod, set in an alternate timeline where the Gathering still continues.
Highlander: The Source
Highlander: The Source (2007), the fifth Highlander film, directed by Brett Leonard, stars Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod questing for the origin of Immortality against the Guardian; it premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel and was critically panned.
Highlands park
Highlands Park FC, the Lions of the North, a Johannesburg football club founded in 1959, dominant in the whites-only NFL, sold to Jomo Sono in 1983, revived in 1990 and 2003, reached the PSL in 2016, sold its status to TS Galaxy in 2020.
Highlands Ranch
Highlands Ranch, Colorado: unincorporated master-planned CDP in Douglas County, 12 miles south of Denver; founded 1981 by Mission Viejo on a 22,000-acre ranch, completed by Shea Homes; 103,444 residents (2020).
Highlife
Highlife: West African popular music and dance genre from late-19th-century Ghana (Gold Coast), spread to Nigeria; guitars, brass, call-and-response; styles Dance Band, Guitar Band, Burger; UNESCO-inscribed 2025; precursor of Afrobeat and juju.
Highlight (하이라이트) (band)
Highlight (하이라이트) is a South Korean boy band, formerly BEAST/B2ST (비스트), that debuted in 2009 under Cube Entertainment and rebranded as Highlight in 2017 under member-founded Around Us Entertainment; now a four-member group (Yoon Doo-joon, Yang Yo-seob, Lee Gi-kwang, Son Dong-woon) that regained the BEAST trademark in 2024.
Highlighter
A highlighter, or highlighter pen, is a felt-tip marker filled with translucent fluorescent ink that marks printed text so it stands out yet stays legible; the first, the Hi-Liter, dates to 1963.
Highline Aftermarket
Highline Aftermarket Investments, LLC was an American manufacturer of packaged automotive chemicals, lubricants, and parts, formed in 2016 and sold in 2020 to form Highline Warren.
Highline Canal
The Highline Canal, often styled High Line Canal, is a 71-mile irrigation canal in the Denver, Colorado area, built 1879–1883 and now becoming a regional trail.
Highly accelerated life test
A highly accelerated life test (HALT) is a qualitative reliability engineering method that stresses electronics with extreme temperatures and vibration to expose design weaknesses, without predicting product life.
Highly accelerated stress test
The highly accelerated stress test (HAST) is a reliability test for plastic-packaged semiconductor devices using high temperature, humidity, and pressure, proposed by IBM engineers in 1981.