Highlands, the
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The distinguishing features of its culture were the style of dress (including the kilt and tartan) and the clan system, now in disuse except for historical observances.
It is famous for its rugged beauty.
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Set in the Scottish Highlands, the contestants complete a number of challenges to win money for the prize pot and must try to root out and banish the traitors at a roundtable discussion each night.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
The battle was on — at Saigon, at My Tho, in the Delta, the Highlands, the Coastal Plains.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2018
In its examination of the character of the crofters and the conditions that existed in the Highlands the book is not entirely a crime novel.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2017
Though Watson, Kuchar and Reed will be at TPC River Highlands, the American golf delegate will have a representative at Maracana Stadium: Rickie Fowler, the fourth member of the red, white and blue team.
From Golf Digest • Aug. 2, 2016
Occasional elephant-hunters penetrate the dense forests of the interior, and engineers or tobacco-planters flock to the monotonous levels of the eastern coast, but the glorious Western Highlands, the Sumatran Bovenland, is seldom visited.
From Through the Malay Archipelago by Richings, Emily
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