Liège: Hubert transferred his see there in 721.

construction: Postwar developments in long-span construction: …in Pontiac, Michigan, and the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (1982) in Minneapolis. Air-supported structures are perhaps the most cost-effective type of structure for very long spans.

Hubert Walter was an archbishop of Canterbury, papal legate, justiciar of King Richard I of England, and chancellor of King John of England. Hubert was an administrator whose position in church and state was unmatched until the time of Cardinal Wolsey in the 16th century. Employed in the household

ritual: Sacrificial: …Functions), by the French sociologists Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, who differentiated between sacrifice and rituals of oblation, offering, and consecration. This does not mean that sacrificial rituals do not at times have elements of consecration, offering, or oblation but these are not the distinctive characteristics of sacrificial ritual. Its…

Peace of Hubertusburg, (1763) treaty between Prussia and Austria ending the Seven Years’ War in Germany. Signed five days after the Treaty of Paris, it guaranteed that Frederick II the Great maintained his possession of Silesia and confirmed Prussia’s stature as a major European

Peace of Hubertusburg, (1763) treaty between Prussia and Austria ending the Seven Years’ War in Germany. Signed five days after the Treaty of Paris, it guaranteed that Frederick II the Great maintained his possession of Silesia and confirmed Prussia’s stature as a major European

Adam Sandler: Later movie roles: Funny People, Uncut Gems, and Happy Gilmore 2: In 2020 Sandler starred in Hubie Halloween, about a man trying to save the October holiday. He later was praised for his portrayal of a basketball scout in the sports drama Hustle (2022).

Yo La Tengo: ), drummer Georgia Hubley (b. February 25, 1960, New York), and bassist (from 1992) James McNew (b. July 6, 1969, Baltimore, Maryland).

animation: Animation in Europe: John Hubley, an animator who worked for Disney studios on Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia, left the Disney organization in 1941 and joined the independent animation company United Productions of America in 1945. Working in a radically simplified style, without the depth effects and shading…

Hubballi-Dharwad, city, western Karnataka state, southwestern India. It is situated in an upland region east of the Western Ghats. Hubballi (Hubli), or Pubballi (“Old Village”), developed around the 11th-century stone temple of Aharanishankar. Notable buildings include the Mahadi Mosque, the

bindi: As fashion: …Sher-Gil, Indian actress and singer Shanta Hublikar, and Indian royal and politician Maharani Gayatri Devi. The first stick-on bindis were introduced about mid-century, and liquid kumkum was marketed in the 1980s. Neither of these applications, however, so thoroughly replaced powder as did maroon felt stickers, which had come on the…

Balthasar Hubmaier was an early German Reformation figure and leader of the Anabaptists, a movement that advocated adult baptism. Hubmaier received a doctor of theology degree after studies at the universities at Freiburg and Ingolstadt, and he was appointed cathedral preacher at Regensburg in

encyclopaedia: Encyclopaedic dictionaries: …Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz’s Reales Staats- und Zeitungs-Lexicon (“Lexicon of Government and News”) concentrated on geography, theology, politics, and contemporary history and had to be supplemented by the German economist Paul Jacob Marperger’s Curieuses Natur-, Kunst-, Berg-, Gewerk-, und Handlungslexikon (1712; “Curious Natural, Artistic, Mining, Craft, and Commercial Encyclopaedia”),…

hübnerite, manganese-rich variety of the mineral wolframite

hubris, in ancient Athens, the intentional use of violence to humiliate or degrade. The word’s connotation changed over time, and hubris came to be defined as overweening presumption that leads a person to disregard the divinely fixed limits on human action in an ordered cosmos. The most-famous

Indo-European languages: Sanskrit studies and their impact: …in 1877 another German philologist, Heinrich Hübschmann, showed that Armenian was an independent branch of Indo-European, rather than a member of the Iranian subbranch. Since then the Indo-European family has been enlarged by the discovery of Tocharian languages and of Hittite and the other Anatolian languages and by the recognition,…

Hövsgöl Lake, lake in northern Mongolia. With an area of 1,012 square miles (2,620 square km), it is Mongolia’s largest freshwater lake, with depths exceeding 800 feet (244 m). It lies near the Russian border at an elevation of 5,397 feet (1,645 m), at the southern foot of the east Sayan Range. The

Evariste Régis Huc was a French missionary of the Vincentian (Lazarist) order whose account of his journey through China and Tibet provides a vivid picture of China on the verge of modern times. Sent by his order to Macau (1839), he lived in South China, Beijing, and Heishui (now in Inner Mongolia

Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), the oldest Jewish seminary in the United States for the training of rabbis, long a stronghold of American Reform Judaism. It was founded as the Hebrew Union College in 1875 at Cincinnati, Ohio, by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, and it later

Hucbald was a medieval French musical theorist, scholar, and humanist. Hucbald was a pupil of his uncle, the scholar Milo of Saint-Amand; mention of him is found at Nevers, Saint-Amand, Saint-Omer, and Reims. Hucbald was an abbot and apparently spent his life teaching. His treatise De harmonica

Yuki: …River and its tributaries; the Huchnom of Redwood Valley to the west; the Coast Yuki, who were distributed farther westward along the redwood coast; and the Wappo, who occupied an enclave among the Pomo, some 40 miles (65 km) southward in the Russian River valley.

Robert Coover: Books: …Origin of the Brunists, and Huck Out West (2017), which centers on Mark Twain’s classic fictional characters Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. In 2021 Coover published Street Cop, a short novel with a dystopian theme, featuring illustrations by Art Spiegelman.

Oleksandr Usyk: Professional career: …American Michael Hunter, and Germany’s Marco Huck.

Mike Huckabee is an American politician who served as governor of Arkansas (1996–2007) and who unsuccessfully ran for the 2008 and 2016 Republican U.S. presidential nomination. In 2024 President-elect Donald Trump picked Huckabee to serve as U.S. ambassador to Israel in his upcoming administration,

Mike Huckabee is an American politician who served as governor of Arkansas (1996–2007) and who unsuccessfully ran for the 2008 and 2016 Republican U.S. presidential nomination. In 2024 President-elect Donald Trump picked Huckabee to serve as U.S. ambassador to Israel in his upcoming administration,

Old Roman chant: Helmut Hucke of Frankfurt University maintained that the Old Roman chant was the Roman rendition of Gregorian chant and that the latter originated in the Frankish kingdom with the introduction of the Roman liturgy during the empire of Pippin and Charlemagne. Hucke’s position was supported…

hydrocarbon: Annulenes and the Hückel rule: Insight into the requirements for aromaticity were provided by German physicist Erich Hückel in 1931. Limiting his analysis to planar, monocyclic, completely conjugated polyenes, Hückel calculated that compounds of this type are aromatic if they contain 4n + 2 π electrons, where n…

hydrocarbon: Annulenes and the Hückel rule: Insight into the requirements for aromaticity were provided by German physicist Erich Hückel in 1931. Limiting his analysis to planar, monocyclic, completely conjugated polyenes, Hückel calculated that compounds of this type are aromatic if they contain 4n + 2 π electrons, where n…

liquid: Solutions of electrolytes: …Dutch-born American physical chemist, and Erich Hückel, a German chemist, relates γ± to the ionic strength, which is the sum of the products of the concentration of each ion (in moles per litre) and the square of its charge; the equation predicts that γ± decreases with rising ionic strength in…

huckleberry, any of several species of small fruit-bearing shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia (family Ericaceae). The plants are found throughout eastern North America and the Andes and other mountainous regions of South America. Huckleberry fruits are edible and resemble blueberries (Vaccinium

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, novel by Mark Twain, published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and in the United States in 1885. The book’s narrator is Huckleberry Finn, a youngster whose artless vernacular speech is admirably adapted to detailed and poetic descriptions of scenes, vivid

Norman Taurog: Early comedies and family films: …to become stars, Taurog directed Huckleberry Finn (both 1931), a clunky version of Mark Twain’s classic novel; Junior Durkin and Jackie Coogan, who had played Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, respectively, in John Cromwell’s Tom Sawyer (1930), reprised their roles here. Sooky, Taurog’s fifth feature film of 1931, was a

Jack Conway: The 1940s: …a standard wartime romance, but The Hucksters (both 1947) was a satirical drama in which Gable starred as a no-nonsense advertising executive, with Deborah Kerr as his object of desire and Sydney Greenstreet as a loathsome client. Finally, there was Julia Misbehaves (1948), a playful comedy with Pidgeon and Greer…

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), executive division of the U.S. federal government responsible for carrying out government housing and community development programs. Established in 1965 under Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, it ensures equal access to housing and community-based

Hud, America film drama, released in 1963, that presented a raw and contemporary take on the western and featured Paul Newman as perhaps the most unsympathetic character he ever played. The movie—based on Larry McMurtry’s novel Horseman, Pass By (1961)—centres on Hud Bannon (played by Newman), a

augmented reality: …were almost certainly the “heads-up-displays” (HUDs) used in military airplanes and tanks, in which instrument panel-type information is projected onto the same cockpit canopy or viewfinder through which a crew member sees the external surroundings. Faster computer processors have made it feasible to combine such data displays with real-time…

Pact of Al-Ḥudaybiyah, (628), compromise that was reached between Muḥammad and Meccan leaders, in which Mecca gave political and religious recognition to the growing community of Muslims in Medina. Muḥammad had been approaching Mecca with approximately 1,400 followers in order to perform the ʿumrah

Pact of Al-Ḥudaybiyah, (628), compromise that was reached between Muḥammad and Meccan leaders, in which Mecca gave political and religious recognition to the growing community of Muslims in Medina. Muḥammad had been approaching Mecca with approximately 1,400 followers in order to perform the ʿumrah

Hodeidah, city, western Yemen. It is situated on the Tihāmah coastal plain that borders the Red Sea. It is one of the country’s chief ports and has modern facilities. Hodeidah, first mentioned in Islamic chronicles in 1454/55, became important in the 1520s when the Yemeni Tihāmah was taken by the

Islamic arts: The relation of music to poetry and dance: Musically, these elegies resembled the ḥudāʾ (“caravan song”), possibly used by camel drivers as a charm against the desert spirits, or jinn.

Johan van Waveren Hudde was a Dutch mathematician and statesman who promoted Cartesian geometry and philosophy in Holland and contributed to the theory of equations. Born of a patrician family, Hudde served for some 30 years as burgomaster of Amsterdam. In his De reductione aequationum (1713;

Huddersfield, town and urban area (from 2011 built-up area), Kirklees metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. It lies in the valley of the River Colne 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Leeds. Huddersfield grew in the 18th century from

Harold Wagstaff: …a member of the noted Huddersfield team of 1914–15.

penguin: Reproduction: …in tightly packed crowds called huddles.

Hudibras, satiric poem by Samuel Butler, published in several parts beginning in 1663. The immediate success of the first part resulted in a spurious second part’s appearing within the year; the authentic second part was published in 1664. The two parts, plus “The Heroical Epistle of Hudibras to

pottery: 18th-century developments: …the finest, perhaps, a mounted Hudibras in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Many of these figures are attributed to the modeller Jean Voyez, who was much influenced by the work of Paul-Louis Cyfflé at Lunéville (see above France and Belgium). Ralph Wood I is also noted for the typical English…

Hūdid Dynasty, Muslim Arab dynasty that ruled Saragossa, Spain, in the 11th century during the politically confused period of the party kingdoms (ṭāʾifahs). The murder of the Tujībid king Mundhir II, in 1039, enabled one of his allies, Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn Hūd, known as al-Mustaʿīn, to seize

Thomas Hudner was an American naval officer who, in an act of bravery that would be recognized with the first Medal of Honor of the Korean War, risked his life to rescue his friend and fellow pilot, Jesse L. Brown. Hudner and Brown’s story was the subject of the 2022 film Devotion. Hudner grew up

Thomas Hudner was an American naval officer who, in an act of bravery that would be recognized with the first Medal of Honor of the Korean War, risked his life to rescue his friend and fellow pilot, Jesse L. Brown. Hudner and Brown’s story was the subject of the 2022 film Devotion. Hudner grew up

Hudson, county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It constitutes a low-lying coastal region bounded by the Hackensack and Passaic rivers to the west, Newark Bay to the southwest, Kill Van Kull to the south, and Upper New York Bay and the Hudson River to the east. Although timberland is scarce, oak and

Hudson, city, seat (1786) of Columbia county, southeastern New York, U.S., on the east bank of the Hudson River, 34 miles (55 km) south of Albany. In 1662 a Dutch settler, Jan Frans van Hoesen, purchased the tract from the Mahican (Mohican) Indians; it was called Klauver Rachen (Clover Reach) and

Hudson Bay, inland sea indenting east-central Canada. With an area of 316,000 square miles (819,000 square km), it is bounded by Nunavut territory (north and west), Manitoba and Ontario (south), and Quebec (east). It is connected with the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson Strait (northeast) and with

Hudson Bay Lowland, a wetland area of Canada that covers about 320,000 square km (123,553 square miles) on the southern shores of Hudson Bay and James Bay, surrounded by the Canadian Shield. It falls largely in Ontario and Manitoba, with a small extension into Quebec. It is part of a sedimentary

marten: The American marten (M. americana) is a North American species that inhabits northern wooded regions from Alaska to Newfoundland and Labrador. It is also called the pine marten. Its fur is sometimes sold as American, or Hudson Bay, sable. Its adult length is 35–43 cm (14–17…

Hudson Canyon, large submarine canyon incised into the Atlantic continental slope and outer shelf off New York Harbor, U.S. A shallow shelf channel, Hudson Channel, trends south-southeastward from the mouth of Hudson River to the head of the canyon on the outer shelf, where the water is 300 feet

Hudson River, river in New York state, U.S. It flows almost entirely within the state, the exception being its final segment, where it forms the boundary between New York and New Jersey for 21 miles (34 km). The Hudson originates in several small postglacial lakes in the Adirondack Mountains near

Edith Wharton: …novels are Twilight Sleep (1927), Hudson River Bracketed (1929), and its sequel, The Gods Arrive (1932). Her autobiography, A Backward Glance, appeared in 1934. In all Wharton published more than 50 books, including fiction, short stories, travel books, historical novels, and criticism.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Environmental activism: …Fishermen’s Association (now known as Riverkeeper), a nonprofit organization devoted to cleaning up the Hudson River and taking legal action against government and corporate entities that have polluted it. He became dedicated to environmental causes, serving as Riverkeeper’s chief prosecuting attorney and as senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense…

Hudson River school, large group of American landscape painters of several generations who worked between about 1825 and 1870. The name, applied retrospectively, refers to a similarity of intent rather than to a geographic location, though many of the older members of the group drew inspiration

Hudson Strait, arm of the Atlantic Ocean between Baffin Island (Nunavut) and northern Quebec, Canada, linking Hudson Bay and Foxe Basin with the Labrador Sea. It is about 500 miles (800 km) long and 40–150 miles (65–240 km) wide and has a maximum depth of 3,090 feet (942 metres). Salisbury and

Hudson’s Bay Company, corporation that occupies a prominent place in both the economic and the political history of Canada. It was incorporated in England on May 2, 1670, to seek a northwest passage to the Pacific, to occupy the lands adjacent to Hudson Bay, and to carry on any commerce with those

Christie Brinkley is an American model and actress who gained fame for appearing on hundreds of magazine covers, notably a series of Sports Illustrated (SI) swimsuit issues. She represented a new generation of celebrity models who were photographed more often in sportswear than in couture fashions.

Ghostbusters: Plot and characters: …fourth ghostbuster, Winston Zeddmore (Ernie Hudson). But the Ghostbusters’ success is complicated by a pesky Environmental Protection Agency official (William Atherton), who believes that the Ghostbusters’ spectral storage facility poses an environmental risk to the city. He succeeds in ordering a shutdown of the Ghostbusters’ protection grid, which results…

George Hudson was an English financier, known as the “railway king,” whose enterprise made York a major railway and commercial hub. Having risen from an apprenticeship in the drapery business to partnership in the firm, he began his railroad activities in 1827 by investing a £30,000 bequest in

Henry Hudson was an English navigator and explorer who, sailing three times for the English (1607, 1608, 1610–11) and once for the Dutch (1609), tried to discover a short route from Europe to Asia through the Arctic Ocean, in both the Old World and the New. A river, a strait, and a bay in North

Chariots of Fire: Chariots of Fire was director Hugh Hudson’s first feature film. The soundtrack, by Vangelis, became iconic, being used as theme music for sporting events as well as in countless films, TV shows, and commercials.

Jennifer Hudson is an American actress and singer who first garnered attention on the reality television show American Idol and later earned acclaim for her music and acting. She accomplished the rare feat of winning the four major North American entertainment awards (EGOT: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and

Jennifer Hudson is an American actress and singer who first garnered attention on the reality television show American Idol and later earned acclaim for her music and acting. She accomplished the rare feat of winning the four major North American entertainment awards (EGOT: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and

Katy Perry is an American pop singer who gained fame for a string of anthemic and often sexually suggestive hit songs, as well as for a playfully cartoonish sense of style. Her popular singles include “I Kissed a Girl,” “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” “Roar,” and “Rise.” Katy Hudson was raised in

Andes Mountains: Physiography of the Southern Andes: …S; the southernmost of these, Mount Hudson of Chile, erupted in 1991. Enormous ice fields are located between Mount Fitz Roy (called Mount Chaltel in Chile) and Lake Buenos Aires (Lake General Carrera in Chile) at both sides of Baker Fjord; the Viedma, Upsala, and other glaciers originate from these…

Rock Hudson was an American actor noted for his good looks and movie roles during the 1950s and ’60s and popular television series in the 1970s. A well-liked actor of modest talent, Hudson was one of the first known Hollywood celebrities to die of AIDS-related complications; the extensive publicity

Roderick Hudson, fictional character, the protagonist of the novel Roderick Hudson (1875) by American writer Henry

Slash is a British-American guitarist whose emotional playing, whether in melodic solos or bluesy yet heavy riffs, makes him one of the greatest rock guitarists. He has most famously played for the band Guns N’ Roses, and his signature look—a top hat and an amber Gibson Les Paul—has become

Thomas Hudson was an English portrait painter, who forms an important link in the apostolic succession of English portrait painters and was praised by contemporaries for his ability to catch a likeness. Hudson was a pupil of Jonathan Richardson, whose daughter he married, and the young Joshua

W.H. Hudson was a British author, naturalist, and ornithologist, best known for his exotic romances, especially Green Mansions. Hudson’s parents were originally New Englanders who took up sheep farming in Argentina. He spent his childhood—lovingly recalled in Far Away and Long Ago (1918)—freely

W.H. Hudson was a British author, naturalist, and ornithologist, best known for his exotic romances, especially Green Mansions. Hudson’s parents were originally New Englanders who took up sheep farming in Argentina. He spent his childhood—lovingly recalled in Far Away and Long Ago (1918)—freely

North America: The Appalachians: The Hudson-Mohawk gap represents a major break between the northern and the southern Appalachians and affords a natural point of entry to the interior of the continent.

curlew: The whimbrel (N. phaeopus), or lesser curlew, is the most widely distributed curlew, occurring both in the Old World and in the New World (as two distinct races). Eurasian whimbrels are white-rumped, but the North American race (formerly called the Hudsonian curlew) is dark-rumped.

godwit: …America a smaller form, the Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica), declined in population from overshooting to an estimated 2,000 survivors, but it may be reviving. The other North American form, the marbled godwit (L. fedoa), with slightly upturned bill and pinkish brown underwings, is fairly common; it undergoes little seasonal colour…

Hudsonian orogeny, Precambrian thermal event on the Canadian Shield that took place 1.7 billion years ago (± 1.5 million years). Rocks that produce dates in this time span are those in the Churchill Province, a large arcuate belt that includes most of Canada west of Hudson Bay, the exposed

Sam Raimi: The Quick and the Dead and A Simple Plan: …cowrote the Coen brothers’ comedy The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) and created the television series M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994–97) before returning to the director’s chair for the western The Quick and the Dead (1995). Raimi’s next projects, the crime drama A Simple Plan (1998) and the baseball romance For the Love of the…

al-ḥudūd, in the Druze religion, five cosmic principles that are emanations from God, the One. Al-Ḥākim, the 11th-century Fāṭimid caliph of Egypt deified by the Druzes, stands at the centre of the universe as the embodiment of the One. Ḥamzah ibn ʿAlī, a contemporary of al-Ḥākim, systematized the

television: Basic principles of compatible colour: The NTSC system: … (brightness or “brilliance”); (2) its hue (the redness, orangeness, blueness, or greenness, etc., of the light); and (3) its saturation (vivid versus pastel quality). Since the intended luminance value of each point in the scanning pattern is transmitted by the methods of monochrome television, it is only necessary to transmit,…

Hue, city, central Vietnam. Lying on a plain backed by foothills of the Annamese Cordillera (Chaîne Annamitique) and situated 5 miles (8 km) from the South China Sea coast, Hue is traversed by the broad, shallow Huong River (Hue River, or Perfume River). At the city’s heart, on the river’s left

hue and cry, early English legal practice of pursuing a criminal with cries and sounds of alarm. It was the duty of any person wronged or discovering a felony to raise the hue and cry, and his neighbours were bound to come and assist him in the pursuit and apprehension of the offender. All those

James Alan McPherson: …first volume of short fiction, Hue and Cry. In addition to “Gold Coast,” the bleak tales of Hue and Cry include the title story, about interracial relationships; “Solo Song: For Doc,” about the decline of an elderly waiter; “An Act of Prostitution,” about the inconsistencies of the justice system; and…

television: Controls: …a system known as “automatic hue control.” In this system, the viewer makes an initial manual adjustment of the hue control to produce the preferred flesh tones. Thereafter, the hue control circuit automatically maintains the preselected ratio of the primary colours corresponding to the viewer’s choice. Thus, the most…

Hue: …Huong River (Hue River, or Perfume River). At the city’s heart, on the river’s left bank, is the Chinese-style Vietnamese imperial citadel, Dai Noi, from which the Nguyen family controlled southern and central Vietnam from the mid-16th to the mid-20th century. The citadel’s 7-mile (11-km) walled circumference enclosed priceless artifacts…

China: Vietnam: …name of Annam) in the Treaty of Hue of August 1883, the Qing deployed its army in the northern frontier of Tongkin. Efforts for a peaceful settlement ended in failure, and both countries prepared for war.

hübnerite, manganese-rich variety of the mineral wolframite

Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, editor, and critic, an international influence in early 20th-century literature. The son of a German music critic, Francis Hueffer, and a grandson of Ford Madox Brown, one of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, Ford grew up in a cultured, artistic environment. At

Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, editor, and critic, an international influence in early 20th-century literature. The son of a German music critic, Francis Hueffer, and a grandson of Ford Madox Brown, one of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, Ford grew up in a cultured, artistic environment. At

Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, editor, and critic, an international influence in early 20th-century literature. The son of a German music critic, Francis Hueffer, and a grandson of Ford Madox Brown, one of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, Ford grew up in a cultured, artistic environment. At

Huehuetenango, city, west-central Guatemala. It lies at an elevation of 6,200 feet (1,890 metres) above sea level on the southern slopes of the Cuchumatanes Mountains, which are the highest mountains in the country. The name Huehuetenango means “Place of the Ancients,” and near the city are ruins

Xiuhtecuhtli, Aztec god of fire, thought to be the creator of all life. “Old God” is a reflection of his relative age in the Aztec pantheon. In association with Chantico, his feminine counterpart, Xiuhtecuhtli was believed to be a representation of the divine creator, Ometecuhtli. One of the

Native American music: Central Mexico: …(teponaztli) and single-headed drum (huéhuetl); these instruments have been played since pre-Columbian times. Central Mexicans also play Spanish instruments such as the violin, guitar, and harp. In addition, the Mixtec have adopted certain percussion instruments introduced by African peoples; these include the cajón de tapeo, a wooden box struck…

Santiago: History: … and by Huelén (later renamed Santa Lucía) Hill to the east, which served as a lookout.

Huelva, provincia (province) in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain. It is bordered by the Guadiana River and Portugal to the west and by Sevilla province to the east. The province’s mountainous northern portion (Sierra de Aracena) gives way in the south

Huelva, city and port, capital of Huelva provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain. The city lies on the western shore of a peninsula formed by the estuaries of the Odiel and Tinto rivers, which empty into the Gulf of Cádiz of the

Port Hueneme, city and seaport terminal, Ventura county, southwestern California, U.S. Lying about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Los Angeles and 40 miles (65 km) south of Santa Barbara, it is the only commercial deepwater port between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Founded in 1874 by Thomas R.