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| - Hidalgo is a city/state in Mexico.
- Admiral Hidalgo was an elderly Starfleet officer who served in the 24th century. She was viewed as a motherly figure by many Starfleet officer, with both great empathy and strength. In 2364, she called Captain Jean-Luc Picard to congratulate him on assuming command of the USS Enterprise-D, and assured him that he had earned the right to command the Enterprise and to not doubt his abilities. (TNG novelization: Encounter at Farpoint).
- Hidalgo, Texas has always been a small town rich in culture and heritage, a blend of Dixie, the American West, and Mexico it was a fine example of a border town before the war and after it. A small trading post and pit stop for travelers leaving Texas for Mexico and leaving Mexico for Texas, Hidalgo has had a checkered past since the bombs fell and has gone from a booming town crawling out of the radioactive gutter of the world to a barbaric one of lawless gutter trash to a town once again possessing a modicum of civilization, weathering hard economic times, anarchy, and Comanchero raiders to get to where it is today.
- In 1891, wealthy Sheikh Riyadh (Omar Sharif) sends his attaché Aziz (Adam Alexi-Malle) to invite American Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), and his mustang, Hidalgo, to enter the "Ocean of Fire," an annual 3,000-mile survival race across the Najd desert region, a race traditionally restricted to pure-bred Arabian horses.Hopkins had been a cowboy and a dispatch rider for the United States government. In this capacity, he had carried a message to the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, authorizing the attack at Wounded Knee that resulted in massacre of a band of Lakota Sioux.While working as a stunt rider in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, Hopkins and his horse are advertised as "the world's greatest distance horse and rider". The Arabs consider the al-Khamsa line to be the greatest distance horses. Az
- Hopkins is then invited to compete in a famous Arabian race, the Ocean of Fire, three thousand miles across some of the hottest, most forbidding desert in the world. While there he meets Sheikh Riyadh (Omar Sharif), owner of Al-Hattal, the most perfect Arabian horse in the world at that time, who loves tales of the American West; the sheikh's daughter, Jazira (Zuleikha Robinson), who rides like the wind and is not at all the meek Bedouin woman she pretends to be, and who is promised to the Prince riding Al-Hattal; Lady Anne Davenport (Louise Lombard), owner of a gray Arabian mare whom she wishes to breed with Al-Hattal; and Prince Bin Al Reeh (Said Taghmaoui), who wants Al-Hattal - and Jazira - for his own.
- Early in the year 2006 I created the nation of Mattersville, which eventually self destructed because of my inactivity to it. Mattersville, a title of a NOFX song, was not a member of an alliance, and therefore was very weak, small, and unimportant. In February 2008 I decided to give leadership another chance by creating another nation. This time around, the name Mattersville was unavailable, so I was forced to forge a new title. At the time of my nation's foundation a David Bowie CD was playing loudly at the capital building, so in the spirit of Ziggy Stardust, the nation was dubbed Starduston. The capital was placed directly on top of my house. In April 2008, following the advice given by Waytansea of Waytansea Island, I joined the Orange Team's Grand Lodge of Freemasons, which is indeed
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| - Early in the year 2006 I created the nation of Mattersville, which eventually self destructed because of my inactivity to it. Mattersville, a title of a NOFX song, was not a member of an alliance, and therefore was very weak, small, and unimportant. In February 2008 I decided to give leadership another chance by creating another nation. This time around, the name Mattersville was unavailable, so I was forced to forge a new title. At the time of my nation's foundation a David Bowie CD was playing loudly at the capital building, so in the spirit of Ziggy Stardust, the nation was dubbed Starduston. The capital was placed directly on top of my house. In April 2008, following the advice given by Waytansea of Waytansea Island, I joined the Orange Team's Grand Lodge of Freemasons, which is indeed a grand alliance. However, I did not become active in the alliance until May, when the Grand Lodge made a transition to a new website with new forums.
- Hidalgo is a city/state in Mexico.
- Hopkins is then invited to compete in a famous Arabian race, the Ocean of Fire, three thousand miles across some of the hottest, most forbidding desert in the world. While there he meets Sheikh Riyadh (Omar Sharif), owner of Al-Hattal, the most perfect Arabian horse in the world at that time, who loves tales of the American West; the sheikh's daughter, Jazira (Zuleikha Robinson), who rides like the wind and is not at all the meek Bedouin woman she pretends to be, and who is promised to the Prince riding Al-Hattal; Lady Anne Davenport (Louise Lombard), owner of a gray Arabian mare whom she wishes to breed with Al-Hattal; and Prince Bin Al Reeh (Said Taghmaoui), who wants Al-Hattal - and Jazira - for his own. Hidalgo has chases, shootouts, rescues and triumphing over unbelievable odds. It is anything but a true story, but, to quote Roger Ebert, "... if you do not have some secret place in your soul that still responds even a little to brave cowboys, beautiful princesses and noble horses, then you are way too grown up and need to cut back on cable news. And please ignore any tiresome scolds who complain that the movie is not really based on fact. Duh."
- Admiral Hidalgo was an elderly Starfleet officer who served in the 24th century. She was viewed as a motherly figure by many Starfleet officer, with both great empathy and strength. In 2364, she called Captain Jean-Luc Picard to congratulate him on assuming command of the USS Enterprise-D, and assured him that he had earned the right to command the Enterprise and to not doubt his abilities. (TNG novelization: Encounter at Farpoint).
- Hidalgo, Texas has always been a small town rich in culture and heritage, a blend of Dixie, the American West, and Mexico it was a fine example of a border town before the war and after it. A small trading post and pit stop for travelers leaving Texas for Mexico and leaving Mexico for Texas, Hidalgo has had a checkered past since the bombs fell and has gone from a booming town crawling out of the radioactive gutter of the world to a barbaric one of lawless gutter trash to a town once again possessing a modicum of civilization, weathering hard economic times, anarchy, and Comanchero raiders to get to where it is today.
- In 1891, wealthy Sheikh Riyadh (Omar Sharif) sends his attaché Aziz (Adam Alexi-Malle) to invite American Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), and his mustang, Hidalgo, to enter the "Ocean of Fire," an annual 3,000-mile survival race across the Najd desert region, a race traditionally restricted to pure-bred Arabian horses.Hopkins had been a cowboy and a dispatch rider for the United States government. In this capacity, he had carried a message to the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, authorizing the attack at Wounded Knee that resulted in massacre of a band of Lakota Sioux.While working as a stunt rider in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, Hopkins and his horse are advertised as "the world's greatest distance horse and rider". The Arabs consider the al-Khamsa line to be the greatest distance horses. Aziz asks the show to stop using that phrase or to allow Hopkins and Hidalgo to enter the race and prove themselves.The American cowboy and his mustang are placed against the world's greatest Arabian horses and Bedouin riders, some of whom are determined to prevent a foreigner - and especially an "impure" horse - from finishing the race. For Hopkins, the Ocean of Fire becomes not only a matter of pride and honor but a race for his survival, as he and his horse attempt the near-impossible desert crossing. He intends to use the purse for saving mustangs. They were important to the Indians, who trained and used them, but the US government was trying to eliminate them to convert the Indians to farming.Throughout the race, competitors try to kill Hopkins and Hidalgo. Chief adversaries include the wealthy, spoiled British aristocrat Lady Anne Davenport (Louise Lombard), who owns a rival Arabian horse and is used to getting her own way. Another is the Sheikh's nephew, who wishes, contrary to his uncle's decree, to marry his cousin, the sheikh's daughter Jazira (Zuleikha Robinson). A spirited girl and a horse-rider in her own right, she is rescued by Hopkins from a raid in which the Sheikh's nephew hoped to force her marriage by dishonoring her. She grows to trust the American. A recurring theme in the film is the fact that Hopkins' father was European American and his mother a member of the Native American Lakota tribe. The Lakota call him "Blue Child" or "Far Rider". As a half-breed, he feels sympathy and pity for his mother's people, who are being driven to extinction by the settlers. However, he does not generally reveal his heritage, especially after the Wounded Knee massacre, for which he feels partly responsible. Jazira compares his relation to his heritage to her desire to avoid wearing a veil, saying that he mustn't "go through life hiding what God made you.... like me."Near the end of the race, Hidalgo is severely injured and Hopkins is dying of thirst. As he hallucinates, by Lakota tradition he sings a prayer to Wakan Tanka as his death song. But Hidalgo struggles up, and Hopkins rides bareback to finish the race, which he wins. After Hopkins returns to the United States, he buys many mustangs which would have been killed by the Government in an effort to control Indians. He releases the horses, including Hidalgo, into the wild.
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