Hārūt and Mārūt, in Islāmic mythology, two angels who unwittingly became masters of evil. A group of angels, after observing the sins being committed on earth, began to ridicule man’s weakness. God declared that they would act no better under the same circumstances and proposed that some angels be

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz: …was the first president of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Renzo Piano: His later projects included the Harvard Art Museum renovation and expansion (2014), Cambridge, Massachusetts; the addition to the Kimbell Art Museum (2013), Fort Worth, Texas; the new building for the Whitney Museum of American Art (2015), New York City; and the long-delayed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (2021), Los Angeles.…

stellar classification: …of two classification schemes: the Harvard system, which is based on the star’s surface temperature, and the MK system, which is based on the star’s luminosity.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Harvard College Observatory: The Harvard College Observatory was founded in 1839 by the Harvard Corporation at a time when few such facilities existed in the United States. Its 38-cm refractor rivaled the largest in the world at its opening in 1847. Under the directorship of…

Richard Blumenthal: …of the editorial board of The Harvard Crimson. During that time he also worked at The Washington Post. After attending the University of Cambridge on a yearlong exchange program, he returned to the United States to study law at Yale University (J.D., 1973). Blumenthal was editor in chief of the…

Samantha Power: …1998 she had joined the Harvard Kennedy School as the founder and executive director (1998–2002) of a human rights initiative that would become in 1999 the Carr Center for Human Rights. In 2006 Power became the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy and taught at…

Conan O’Brien: Early life and education: There he wrote for The Harvard Lampoon, the school’s prestigious humor magazine, and was elected president of the magazine for an unprecedented two consecutive terms in 1983–84.

legal education: History: …of which was established at Harvard University in 1817. By the late 19th century, Harvard had put in place a number of practices that eventually came to define American legal education, including the use of the “case method” of instruction (see below Teaching), the requirement that students complete three years…

Harvard Mark I, an early protocomputer, built during World War II in the United States. While Vannevar Bush was working on analog computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), across town Harvard University professor Howard Aiken was working with digital devices for calculation. He

Charles Rockwell Lanman: … (1884) and helped edit the “Harvard Oriental Series,” which offered scholarly English translations of the ancient Hindu Vedic texts.

Timothy Leary: …Ram Dass), he formed the Harvard Psilocybin Project and began administering psilocybin to graduate students; he also shared the drug with several prominent artists, writers, and musicians. Leary explored the cultural and philosophical implications of psychedelic drugs. In contrast to those within the psychedelic research community who argued that the…

Massachusetts: Cultural life: Harvard Square in Cambridge is a favorite tourist stop for its potpourri of people and its proximity to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Salem’s House of Seven Gables and other “haunted” houses keep the memories of the witchcraft era alive.

stellar classification: …of two classification schemes: the Harvard system, which is based on the star’s surface temperature, and the MK system, which is based on the star’s luminosity.

George Foot Moore: …in the establishment of the Harvard Theological Review in 1908, serving as editor (1908–14, 1921–31).

Harvard University, oldest institution of higher learning in the United States (founded 1636) and one of the eight Ivy League schools, widely regarded for high academic standards, selectivity in admissions, and social prestige. The main university campus lies along the Charles River in Cambridge,

Harvard University Library, largest university library and the first institutional library in what became the United States, established when John Harvard, a young Puritan minister, left his collection of 260 volumes to the new Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., in 1638. The core of the

Stephen Day: …press became the forerunner of Harvard University Press.

John Harvard was a New England colonist whose bequest permitted the firm establishment of Harvard College. John Harvard was the son of a butcher and of the daughter of a cattle merchant and alderman of Stratford-on-Avon. The plague killed his father and most of his brothers and sisters in 1625. His

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), astronomical research institution headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on the campus of Harvard University. The CfA was created in 1973 by reorganizing the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under

Neil Young: Harvest, Rust Never Sleeps, and Harvest Moon: Harvest (1972) continued the confessional vein, and its rare stylistic continuity made it one of Young’s best-selling but, in the minds of some, least-satisfying discs. Its simplistic attitudes apparently set off an internal reexamination; at least it started a decade’s artistic wanderings. The experimentation cost…

harvest, the season of the gathering of crops. The word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon haerfest (“autumn”) or the Old High German herbist. Harvest has been a season of rejoicing from the remotest times. The Romans had their Ludi Cereales, or feasts in honour of Ceres. The Druids celebrated their

Agnes de Mille: …the story of Lizzie Borden), The Harvest According (1952), and Three Virgins and a Devil (1941).

5 Harvest Festivals Around the World: …region, climate, and crop, but festivals celebrating its arrival are held the world over. Some are first-fruits festivals that recognize the start of the season and the first crops, while other harvest festivals are celebrations to give thanks for the blessing of a bountiful harvest and to mark or ensure…

butterfish: Among these are the harvest fish (Peprilus alepidotus), an Atlantic species that usually grows to about 20 cm (8 inches) long; the Pacific pompano (Peprilus simillimus), a silvery Californian fish; and Pampus argenteus, a black-spotted, Oriental fish.

Harvest Home, traditional English harvest festival, celebrated from antiquity and surviving to modern times in isolated regions. Participants celebrate the last day of harvest in late September by singing, shouting, and decorating the village with boughs. The cailleac, or last sheaf of corn

chigger, (suborder Prostigmata), the larva of any of approximately 10,000 species of mites in the invertebrate subclass Acari (the mites and ticks). The name is also erroneously applied to an insect better known as the chigoe, jigger, or jigger flea. Chiggers range in length from 0.1 to 16 mm

harvest moon, the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox (about September 23). Near the time of the autumnal equinox, the angle of the Moon’s orbit relative to Earth’s horizon is at its minimum, causing the full moon to rise above the horizon much faster than usual. Since the difference of the

Neil Young: Harvest, Rust Never Sleeps, and Harvest Moon: …Young again reversed direction, releasing Harvest Moon, a plaintive, mostly acoustic sequel to Harvest that became his biggest seller since the 1970s. His next significant album, Sleeps with Angels (1994), was a meditation on death that mixes ballads with more-typical Crazy Horse-backed rockers.

Chuseok, Korean holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month to commemorate the fall harvest and to honor one’s ancestors. Similar to Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the Harvest Moon Festival, as it is also known, is one of the most popular holidays in South Korea and North

harvest mouse, either of two genera of small mice: the American harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys) or the Old World harvest mouse (Micromys). The 20 species of American harvest mice are widespread, being found from southern Canada to northern South America at elevations ranging from below sea level to

Timothy O’Sullivan: In works such as A Harvest of Death (1863), which shows the Confederate dead at Gettysburg, O’Sullivan moved beyond traditional war images, which usually portrayed armies at rest, to capture instead the grim and gruesome realities of armed warfare.

Thomas Gainsborough: Bath period: …Rubens is also apparent in The Harvest Wagon in the fluency of the drawing and the scale of the great beech trees so different from the stubby oaks of Suffolk. The idyllic scene is a perfect blend of the real and the ideal. The group in the cart is based…

Meridel Le Sueur: …of Ancient Ripening (1975; poetry); Harvest: Collected Stories (1977); and Ripening: Selected Work, 1927–80 (1982).

harvester, in farming, any of several machines for harvesting; the design and function of harvesters varies widely according to crop. See binder; combine; corn harvester; cotton harvester; header; reaper; thresher; windrower. See also entries for particular crops (e.g., hay, for hay-cutting

harvester, (subfamily Miletinae), any of a group of predatory insects in the gossamer-winged butterfly family, Lycaenidae (order Lepidoptera), that are rapid fliers and are distinguished by iridescent wings that are usually brownish above and spotted below. The male’s forelegs are reduced, but the

harvester ant, any of several different genera of ants (e.g., Messor, Atta, Pheidole, Pogonomyrmex) that gather seeds and leaves. As eusocial insects, the work of these ants is done to feed and support the colony, a family unit that functions almost as a single organism. Messor species collect,

organized labour: Compulsory arbitration and union growth in Australasia: …Arbitration Court’s judgment in the Harvester case. This ruling held that a living wage was a first charge upon industry, and it set a basic wage for unskilled labour at a level substantially higher than existing rates—an approach to wage determination that unions could certainly live with. Within both countries,…

farmer’s lung, a pulmonary disorder that results from the development of hypersensitivity to inhaled dust from moldy hay or other fodder. In the acute form, symptoms include a sudden onset of breathlessness, fever, a rapid heartbeat, cough (especially in the morning), copious production of phlegm,

Cesare Pavese: …initial novella, Paesi tuoi (1941; The Harvesters, 1961), recalled, as many of his works do, the sacred places of childhood. Between 1943 and 1945 he lived with partisans of the anti-Fascist Resistance in the hills of Piedmont.

Western painting: Low Countries: His Harvesters (1565) displays a remarkable sensitivity to color and pattern. The intense golden yellow of the ripe wheat sets up a bold pattern across the lower half of the picture and contrasts with the cool greens and blues of the limitless plain stretching off into…

cocoa: Harvesting: Harvesting of cocoa beans can proceed all year, but the bulk of the crop is gathered in two flush periods occurring from October to February and from May to August. The ripe seed pods are cut from the trees and split open with machetes.…

daddy longlegs, (order Opiliones), any of more than 6,650 species of arachnids (class Arachnida) that are known for their extremely long and thin legs and for their compact bodies. Daddy longlegs are closely related to scorpions (order Scorpiones) but, because of their appearance, are often

Harvey: on Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name about a man’s unusual friendship.

Harvey, American comedy film, released in 1950, that is based on Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name about a man’s unusual friendship. James Stewart portrayed Elwood P. Dowd, an amiable fellow with a fondness for drink who travels everywhere with his best friend—a giant rabbit

Cyd Charisse: Career: …to appear in the musical The Harvey Girls (1946) with actress Judy Garland and the musical Words and Music (1948). She achieved stardom with her dance routine—in which she did not speak a word—opposite Gene Kelly in the musical Singin’ in the Rain. Although she was on screen for less…

Samuel Hopkins Adams: …Night (1934) and a musical, The Harvey Girls (1942). Grandfather Stories (1955) was based on reminiscences of his grandfather in upper New York State. He also wrote under the name Warner Fabian.

Fred Harvey: …Fe Railroad, each called the Harvey House and often staffed by “Harvey Girls.”

Claremont Colleges: Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College) and two graduate schools (Claremont Graduate University and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences). The campuses are adjacent to one another, and many facilities are shared, including the consortium’s main library, the Honnold/Mudd Library, which houses nearly…

Anne Sexton was an American poet whose work is noted for its confessional intensity. Her poems addressed many taboo topics and explored familial and intimate relationships through the use of myths and archetypes. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her collection Live or Die (1966). Born Anne Harvey, she

The Lion in Winter: The film marked director Anthony Harvey’s first major feature film, though he had previously worked as an editor on several Stanley Kubrick classics. Composer John Barry won an Oscar for his innovative score.

Steve Harvey is an American comedian, actor, author, and television and radio personality who first gained fame for his observational humour and later became known for his self-help advice, especially about relationships. Harvey grew up with his parents and elder siblings in Cleveland. He attended

geography: Influence of the social sciences: …the first, geographers led by David Harvey (who was Cambridge-trained but worked largely in the United States) explored Marxist thinking. This involved not only the workings of the economy—to which they added an important spatial dimension—but also the class conflict underpinning Marxian analyses and the consequent unequal distribution of power.…

Edmund Newton Harvey was a U.S. zoologist and physiologist whose work in marine biology contributed to the early study of bioluminescence. From 1911 until his retirement in 1956 he taught at Princeton University, becoming H.F. Osborn professor of biology in 1933. His research, primarily in cellular

Fred Harvey was an American restaurateur, who operated a chain of restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, each called the Harvey House and often staffed by “Harvey Girls.” Harvey emigrated from Liverpool, Eng., to New York City in 1850 and began working in restaurants there

Fred Harvey was an American restaurateur, who operated a chain of restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, each called the Harvey House and often staffed by “Harvey Girls.” Harvey emigrated from Liverpool, Eng., to New York City in 1850 and began working in restaurants there

Gabriel Harvey was an English writer and friend of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser; the latter celebrated their friendship in The Shepheardes Calender (1579) through the characters of Hobbinol (Harvey) and Colin Clout (Spenser). Harvey was also noted for his tenacious participation in literary

Hayward A. Harvey was a versatile American inventor who discovered the modern method of strengthening armour plating. Harvey began his career as a draftsman in the New York Screw Company, of which his father was president. After a series of engineering jobs he founded (c. 1865) the Continental

Hayward A. Harvey was a versatile American inventor who discovered the modern method of strengthening armour plating. Harvey began his career as a draftsman in the New York Screw Company, of which his father was president. After a series of engineering jobs he founded (c. 1865) the Continental

Ian Rankin is a Scottish best-selling crime novelist, creator of the Inspector Rebus series. (For Rankin’s reflections on the Scottish capital, see Edinburgh: A City of Stories.) Rankin grew up in a small coal-mining town, where at a young age he displayed a talent for writing poetry. He studied

Canadian literature: World War II and the postwar period, 1935–60: In fiction Jean-Charles Harvey attacked bourgeois ideology in Les Demi-Civilisés (1934; “The Half-Civilized”; Eng. trans. Sackcloth for Banner and Fear’s Folly), which was condemned by the Roman Catholic Church, resulting in Harvey’s being fired from his job at the journal Le Soleil. Three years later Félix-Antoine Savard’s…

The Alamo: William Travis (Laurence Harvey), a courageous but overly strict officer whose methods clash with those of the folksy Crockett and his fellow legendary frontiersman Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark). Travis hopes to hold the Alamo long enough for Sam Houston (Richard Boone) to send additional troops. When word…

Neil Harvey is an Australian cricketer who was noted as an outstanding left-handed batsman. Harvey first gained recognition in 1948 as the youngest member of the Australian team against India at Melbourne. From 1948 until 1963 he played in more Test (international) matches (79) than any other

Paul Harvey was an American radio commentator and news columnist noted for his firm staccato delivery and his conservative but individualistic opinions on current events. He enjoyed an almost unparalleled longevity as a national broadcaster. Harvey was descended from five generations of Baptist

PJ Harvey is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist whose mythically pitched, fanatically intense recordings and concerts set new standards for women in rock. Harvey, born to countercultural parents in rural England, seems to have grown up with a sense of rock as simply another elemental force

PJ Harvey is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist whose mythically pitched, fanatically intense recordings and concerts set new standards for women in rock. Harvey, born to countercultural parents in rural England, seems to have grown up with a sense of rock as simply another elemental force

Neil Harvey is an Australian cricketer who was noted as an outstanding left-handed batsman. Harvey first gained recognition in 1948 as the youngest member of the Australian team against India at Melbourne. From 1948 until 1963 he played in more Test (international) matches (79) than any other

Sir John Martin Harvey was an English actor, producer, and theatre manager. The son of a yacht builder, Harvey originally planned for a career in naval architecture but decided instead to study theatre with the actor John Ryder. He made his first public appearance in London in 1881. A year later he

Steve Harvey is an American comedian, actor, author, and television and radio personality who first gained fame for his observational humour and later became known for his self-help advice, especially about relationships. Harvey grew up with his parents and elder siblings in Cleveland. He attended

William Harvey was an English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea. Harvey had seven brothers and two sisters, and his father, Thomas Harvey, was a farmer and landowner. Harvey

Terrance Hayes: Personal life, teaching career, and honors: In 1997 Hayes married Yona Harvey, a fellow poet whom he met at Cave Canem. They had a daughter, Ua Pilar, and a son, Aaron Robert, before divorcing. Hayes taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh), and other universities before joining the faculty of New York…

Harwich, town (parish) and seaport, Tendring district, administrative and historic county of Essex, eastern England. It occupies the tip of a small peninsula projecting into the estuary of the Rivers Stour and Orwell opposite Felixstowe in Suffolk. In 885 ce Alfred the Great defeated Danish ships

Harwich, town (township), Barnstable county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on the southern coast of Cape Cod. Named for Harwich, England, it was settled about 1655 and incorporated in 1694. Once a whaling and shipbuilding centre, its economy is now based largely on cranberry cultivation

Are There Towns in the United States That Are Surrounded by Cities?: Michigan (surrounded by Detroit), and Harwood Heights and Norridge, Illinois (neighboring towns entirely surrounded by Chicago).

Australian literature: Literature from 1940 to 1970: Gwen Harwood developed a thoughtful kind of poetry, varied at times by clever, satiric verses, as in her Collected Poems (1991).

opera: Czechoslovakia and other eastern European countries: …tunes and some spoken passages) Háry János, by Zoltán Kodály (1926), both of which have become more familiar in concert performance or excerpts than in staged productions.

Haryana, state in north-central India. It is bounded on the northwest by the state of Punjab and the union territory of Chandigarh, on the north and northeast by the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, on the east by the state of Uttar Pradesh and the union territory of Delhi, and on the

Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), regional political party of Haryana state, northwest-central India. The party’s focus has been principally in the state, and it has had only a limited presence on the national political scene in New Delhi. Its power base has been principally in the traditional Jat

Harz, most northerly mountain range in Germany, between the Weser and Elbe rivers, occupying parts of the German Länder (states) of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. At its greatest length it extends southeasterly and northwesterly for 60 miles (100 km), and its maximum breadth is about 20 miles (32

Heinrich Heine: Early works: “Die Harzreise” (“The Harz Journey”) became the first piece of what were to be four volumes of Reisebilder (1826–31; Pictures of Travel); the whimsical amalgam of its fact and fiction, autobiography, social criticism, and literary polemic was widely imitated by other writers in subsequent years. Some of…

Alfred Hugenberg: …Hugenberg in 1931 formed the Harzburg Front, an alliance between nationalist, conservative elements and Hitler, to attempt to topple the government of Heinrich Brüning. He proved unable to manipulate the Nazis for his own ends, but the large contributions from German industrialists that flowed, after the Harzburg agreement, into Hitler’s…

Heinrich Heine: Early works: “Die Harzreise” (“The Harz Journey”) became the first piece of what were to be four volumes of Reisebilder (1826–31; Pictures of Travel); the whimsical amalgam of its fact and fiction, autobiography, social criticism, and literary polemic was widely imitated by other writers in subsequent years. Some of…

A complete skeleton of the Spinosaurus has not yet been discovered. What we know about this giant theropod dinosaur comes from partial fossils unearthed in North Africa, including the Kem Kem beds, a fossil-rich region that stretches across parts of Morocco and Algeria. The Spinosaurus was first

The Olympics are filled with memorable moments, from close finishes to remarkable triumphs. Yet it can be easy to overlook how demanding—and potentially dangerous—the events can be. Injuries are common, and a number of athletes have suffered fatal incidents during competition or training. Below we

If you see newborn babies at a hospital in the U.S., you’ll most likely see them in pink or blue outfits to mark their sex (often conflated with gender identity). Has the U.S. always used colors to signify boys or girls? The short answer is no. Pastel colors for baby clothing—including blue and

Al-Hasa: The Al-Hasa region derives its name from the oasis at its centre. The region is bounded on the north by Kuwait, on the east by the Persian Gulf, on the south by the desert Rubʿ al-Khali, or Empty Quarter, and on the west by the Dahnā…

Al-Hasa, oasis and region in eastern Saudi Arabia. Al-Hasa oasis, the largest oasis in Saudi Arabia, lies about 40 miles (65 km) west of the Persian Gulf. It has about 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of palm groves and other crops that are irrigated by the flow of 60 or more artesian springs. Many

Al-Ḥasakah, town, northeastern Syria. The town lies on the banks of the Khābūr River (a tributary of the Euphrates) at its confluence with the Jaghjaghah. Under the Ottoman Empire it lost its importance, but it revived with the settlement there of Assyrian refugees from Iraq during the French

Al-Ḥasakah, town, northeastern Syria. The town lies on the banks of the Khābūr River (a tributary of the Euphrates) at its confluence with the Jaghjaghah. Under the Ottoman Empire it lost its importance, but it revived with the settlement there of Assyrian refugees from Iraq during the French

Ḥasan was a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (the founder of Islam), the elder son of Muhammad’s daughter Fāṭimah. He belongs to the group of the five most holy persons of Shīʿah, those over whom Muhammad spread his cloak while calling them “The People of the House.” After his father, ʿAlī, he was

Buyid dynasty: …seized Eṣfahān and Fārs, while Ḥasan and Aḥmad took Jibāl, Khūzestān, and Kermān (935–936). In December 945 Aḥmad occupied the Abbasid capital of Baghdad as amīr al-umarāʾ (commander in chief) and, reducing the Sunni caliphs to puppet status, established Buyid rule (January 946). Thereafter the brothers were known by their…

Hasan Abdal, town, northern Pakistan. The town is a textile and communications centre that is connected by the Grand Trunk Road and by rail with Peshawar and Rawalpindi. It has government colleges affiliated with the University of the Punjab. The Buddhist site of Hasan Abdal, just east of the town,

Islamic world: Indian Ocean Islam: …century, when its greatest monarch, Ḥasan al-Dīn (ruled 1631–70), was forced to cede his independence. Meanwhile, however, a serious Islamic presence was developing in Java, inland as well as on the coasts; by the early 17th century the first inland Muslim state in Southeast Asia, Mataram, was established. There Sufi…

Hassan al-Banna was an Egyptian political and religious leader who established a new religious society, the Muslim Brotherhood, and played a central role in Egyptian political and social affairs. At age 12 Hassan al-Banna joined the Society for Moral Behavior, thus demonstrating at an early age the

al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī was a deeply pious and ascetic Muslim who was one of the most important religious figures in early Islam. Ḥasan was born nine years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. One year after the Battle of Ṣiffīn (657), he moved to Basra, a military camp town situated 50 miles (80 km)

Shiʿi: Twelver (Ithnā ʿAshariyyah): …down to the 11th imam, Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī. All of these imams were persecuted by the Sunni ʿAbbāsid rulers. At the death of each, the community fragmented into different groups, following different sons or other relatives from the Ḥasanid or Ḥusaynid line. After the death of the 11th imam, the Shiʿah…

Qarakhanid Dynasty: …999 Hārūn (or Ḥasan) Bughra Khān, grandson of the paramount tribal chief of the Qarluq confederation, occupied Bukhara, the Sāmānid capital. The Sāmānid domains were split up between the Ghaznavids, who gained Khorāsān and Afghanistan, and the Qarakhanids, who received Transoxania; the Oxus River thus became the boundary between the…

Jalāyirid: Ḥasan Buzurg, founder of the dynasty, had served as governor of Anatolia (Rūm) under the Il-Khan Abū Saʿīd (reigned 1317–35). Following the death of Abū Saʿīd, Ḥasan Buzurg competed for real control of the empire with his rival, the Chūpānid amīr Ḥasan Küčük (“the Small,”…

India: The Bahmani sultanate: …the throne of Daulatabad as ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Bahman Shah in 1347 and soon moved his capital to the more centrally located Gulbarga on the Deccan plateau. Much of the political and military history of the Bahmanī sultanate can be described as a generally effective attempt to gain control of the…

Leo Africanus was a traveler whose writings remained for some 400 years one of Europe’s principal sources of information about Islam. Educated at Fès, in Morocco, Leo Africanus traveled widely as a young man on commercial and diplomatic missions through North Africa and may also have visited the