• Hahn, Archie (American athlete)

    Archie Hahn was an American runner who won gold medals in three sprint events at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri. Hahn studied law at the University of Michigan, where he excelled in track competition, winning the 1903 Amateur Athletic Union title. At the 1904 Olympics, Hahn won gold

  • Hahn, Charles Archibald (American athlete)

    Archie Hahn was an American runner who won gold medals in three sprint events at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri. Hahn studied law at the University of Michigan, where he excelled in track competition, winning the 1903 Amateur Athletic Union title. At the 1904 Olympics, Hahn won gold

  • Hahn, Hans (German mathematician)

    logical positivism: In 1922 Hans Hahn, one of the leaders of the Vienna Circle, laid before his students at the University of Vienna the Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung (1921; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922) of Ludwig Wittgenstein. This work introduced a new general theory of meaning—derived in part from the logical inquiries of…

  • Hahn, Helena Petrovna (Russian spiritualist)

    Helena Blavatsky was a Russian spiritualist, author, and cofounder of the Theosophical Society to promote theosophy, a pantheistic philosophical-religious system. At the age of 17, Helena Hahn married Nikifor V. Blavatsky, a Russian military officer and provincial vice-governor, but they separated

  • Hahn, Hilary (American musician)

    Hilary Hahn is an American violinist who is regarded as one of the finest solo violinists of her generation. She sought to make classical music more accessible to a younger audience. Hahn began taking Suzuki-method violin lessons at the Peabody Conservatory, in Baltimore, Maryland, shortly before

  • Hahn, James (American politician)

    Antonio Villaraigosa: …the incumbent mayor, fellow Democrat James Hahn, but he lost to Hahn in the general election. He was, however, elected to the city council in 2003, representing Los Angeles’s 14th District. In that role he turned his attention to the resolution of a transit strike and to protecting arts funding.…

  • Hahn, Otto (German chemist)

    Otto Hahn was a German chemist who, with the radiochemist Fritz Strassmann, is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944 and shared the Enrico Fermi Award in 1966 with Strassmann and Lise Meitner. Hahn was the son of a glazier. Although his

  • Hahn, Reynaldo (French composer)

    Reynaldo Hahn was a Venezuelan-born French composer, remembered chiefly for his art songs. Hahn went to Paris as a child and later studied at the Conservatoire under Jules Massenet. He was music critic of Le Figaro from 1934 and in 1945 became director of the Paris Opéra. His operettas, which were

  • Hahn-Hahn, Ida, Countess von (German writer)

    Ida, countess von Hahn-Hahn was a German author of poetry, travel books, and novels that, though written in an artificial, aristocratic style, often show acute psychological insight. Daughter of the theatrical producer Count Karl Friedrich von Hahn, she acquired her hyphenated dual name by marrying

  • Hahnemann, Christian Friedrich Samuel (German physician)

    Samuel Hahnemann was a German physician, founder of the system of therapeutics known as homeopathy. Hahnemann studied medicine at Leipzig and Vienna, taking the degree of M.D. at Erlangen in 1779. After practicing in various places, he settled in Dresden in 1784 and then moved to Leipzig in 1789.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel (German physician)

    Samuel Hahnemann was a German physician, founder of the system of therapeutics known as homeopathy. Hahnemann studied medicine at Leipzig and Vienna, taking the degree of M.D. at Erlangen in 1779. After practicing in various places, he settled in Dresden in 1784 and then moved to Leipzig in 1789.

  • hahnium (chemical element)

    dubnium (Db), an artificially produced radioactive transuranium element in Group Vb of the periodic table, atomic number 105. The discovery of dubnium (element 105), like that of rutherfordium (element 104), has been a matter of dispute between Soviet and American scientists. The Soviets may have

  • Hai (Jewish scholar)

    Hai ben Sherira was the last outstanding Babylonian gaon, or head, of a great Talmudic academy, remembered for the range and profundity of the exceptionally large number of responsa (authoritative answers to questions concerning interpretation of Jewish law) he wrote. Though the office of gaon was

  • Hai ben Sherira (Jewish scholar)

    Hai ben Sherira was the last outstanding Babylonian gaon, or head, of a great Talmudic academy, remembered for the range and profundity of the exceptionally large number of responsa (authoritative answers to questions concerning interpretation of Jewish law) he wrote. Though the office of gaon was

  • Hai Duong (Vietnam)

    Hai Duong, city, northern Vietnam. It is located along the Thai Binh River in the Red River delta, about midway between Haiphong (southeast) and Hanoi (northwest). A rail line links it to the two larger cities, and it is a market centre for a rich rice-growing region; litchi, watermelons, jute,

  • Hái Falls (waterfall, Iceland)

    Hái Falls, waterfall in southern Iceland. It is on the Fossá (a tributary of the Thjórs), upstream from Búrfell. Iceland’s second highest cataract, Hái Falls has a 400-foot (122-metre) vertical

  • Hai He shuixi (river system, China)

    Hai River system, extensive system of tributary streams in northern China that discharge into the sea through the Hai River. The name Hai properly belongs only to the short river that flows from Tianjin into the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli) at Tanggu, a distance of some 43 miles (70 km). The system has

  • Hai Ho shui-hsi (river system, China)

    Hai River system, extensive system of tributary streams in northern China that discharge into the sea through the Hai River. The name Hai properly belongs only to the short river that flows from Tianjin into the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli) at Tanggu, a distance of some 43 miles (70 km). The system has

  • Hai Phong (Vietnam)

    Haiphong, city and province-level municipality, northeastern Vietnam. It lies on the northeastern edge of the Red River delta, beside a distributary of the Thai Binh River, 10 miles (16 km) from the Gulf of Tonkin. It is the outport of the capital, Hanoi, 37 miles (60 km) west, and is the country’s

  • Hai River system (river system, China)

    Hai River system, extensive system of tributary streams in northern China that discharge into the sea through the Hai River. The name Hai properly belongs only to the short river that flows from Tianjin into the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli) at Tanggu, a distance of some 43 miles (70 km). The system has

  • Hai Rui Dismissed From Office (play by Wu Han)

    Gang of Four: …1965 when Wu Han’s play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was banned as a direct result of an investigation by Jiang into its political character, which resulted in a published denunciation of the play by Yao. This case set a precedent for radicalizing the arts and, in effect, signaled the…

  • Hai San (Chinese secret society)

    Hai San, Chinese secret society that was influential in commerce and tin mining in 19th-century Malaya. The Hai San had its origins in southern China and was transmitted to Malaya by immigrant labourers. Cantonese originally dominated the society, but, between 1845 and 1860, Hakka immigrants gained

  • Hai Thu (Vietnamese patriot)

    Phan Boi Chau was a dominant personality of early Vietnamese resistance movements, whose impassioned writings and tireless schemes for independence earned him the reverence of his people as one of Vietnam’s greatest patriots. Phan Boi Chau was the son of a poor scholar, who stressed education and

  • Hai-k’ou (China)

    Haikou, city and capital of Hainan sheng (province), southern China. It is situated on the north coast of Hainan Island, facing the Leizhou Peninsula, across the Hainan (Qiongzhou) Strait (9.5 miles [15 km] wide). Haikou originally grew up as the port for Qiongshan, the ancient administrative

  • Hai-kuo t’u-chih (work by Wei Yuan)

    Wei Yuan: …published his best-known work, the Haiguo tuzhi (“Illustrated Gazetteer of the Countries Overseas”), on the geography and material conditions of foreign nations. Although handicapped by the ignorance and superstition with which the Chinese viewed the West, this work was the first to make use of translations from Western sources. Wei…

  • Hai-la-erh (China)

    Hailar, city, northeastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. It lies on the south bank of the Hailar River, at its junction with the Yimin River. Since 2001 Hailar has served as the urban district of the newly created Hulunbuir city. The area was occupied by the Chinese in the 7th century ce

  • Hai-nan (province and island, China)

    Hainan, sheng (province) in southern China. Its name means “south of the sea.” The main land territory of the province is coextensive with Hainan Island and a handful of nearby offshore islands located in the South China Sea and separated from the Leizhou Peninsula of southern Guangdong province to

  • Hai-nan Tao (province and island, China)

    Hainan, sheng (province) in southern China. Its name means “south of the sea.” The main land territory of the province is coextensive with Hainan Island and a handful of nearby offshore islands located in the South China Sea and separated from the Leizhou Peninsula of southern Guangdong province to

  • Haia (god)

    Ninlil: She was the daughter of Haia, god of the stores, and Ninshebargunu (or Nidaba). The myth recounting the rape of Ninlil by her consort, the wind god Enlil, reflects the life cycle of grain: Enlil, who saw Ninlil bathing in a canal, raped and impregnated her. For his crime he…

  • Haida (people)

    Haida, Haida-speaking North American Indians of Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada, and the southern part of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, U.S. The Alaskan Haida are called Kaigani. Haida culture is related to the cultures of the neighbouring Tlingit and

  • Haida Gwaii (archipelago, Canada)

    Haida Gwaii, archipelago of western British Columbia, Canada, south of the Alaskan Panhandle. Extending in a north–south direction for roughly 175 miles (280 km) and with a land area of 3,705 square miles (9,596 square km), the islands (about 150 in number) are separated from Alaska, mainland

  • Haida language

    Na-Dené languages: Tlingit and Haida are each single languages making up separate families; they are spoken, respectively, in southeastern Alaska and British Columbia. The major language of the Na-Dené group is Navajo, spoken by large Indian populations in Arizona and New Mexico. It is one of the few North…

  • Haidalla, Mohamed Khouna Ould (president of Mauritania)

    Mauritania: Struggle for postindependence stability: Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla.

  • Ḥaidar ʿAlī (emperor of India)

    Hyder Ali was a Muslim ruler of Mysore princely state and military commander who played an important part in the wars in southern India in the mid-18th century. After studying the military tactics of the Frenchman Joseph-François Dupleix, Hyder induced his older brother, a brigade commander in the

  • Ḥaidar ʿAlī Khān (emperor of India)

    Hyder Ali was a Muslim ruler of Mysore princely state and military commander who played an important part in the wars in southern India in the mid-18th century. After studying the military tactics of the Frenchman Joseph-François Dupleix, Hyder induced his older brother, a brigade commander in the

  • haiden (Japanese religious architecture)

    jinja: …it away; and (3) the haiden (hall of worship), where the devotees worship and offer prayers. Large shrines may have additional structures, such as the kagura-den (stage for ceremonial dance), shamusho (shrine office), temizu-ya (ablution basin for washing hands and mouth before worshiping), and also komainu (statues of guardian animals)…

  • Haiden, Hans (German artisan)

    keyboard instrument: Related stringed keyboard instruments: …made by the Nürnberg builder Hans Haiden, who described them at length in pamphlets published in 1605 and 1610. These instruments had a series of rosined wheels that rubbed the strings when they were drawn against them by the action of the keys. According to Haiden, the instrument, which he…

  • Haider (film by Bhardwaj [2014])

    Vishal Bhardwaj: Haider (2014): Based on Hamlet, Haider is Bhardwaj’s most overtly political film of the trilogy, shifting the events of Shakespeare’s Denmark to the politically troubled and insurgency-ridden Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, of the 1990s. Pankaj Kapur’s son, Shahid Kapoor, was cast as Haider, the

  • Haider, Jörg (Austrian politician)

    Jörg Haider was a controversial Austrian politician who served as leader of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (1986–2000) and Alliance for the Future of Austria (2005–08) and as governor of the Bundesland (federal state) of Kärnten (1989–91; 1999–2008). Haider studied at the University of

  • Haider, Qurratulain (Indian writer)

    Qurratulain Hyder was an Indian writer, editor, scholar, and translator who helped the novel become a serious genre of hitherto poetry-oriented Urdu literature. Her masterwork, Aag ka darya (1959; River of Fire), has been compared to those of Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez and Czech

  • haiduk (guerrilla-outlaw)

    Hajdúság: This militarized population, called haiduk (“brigand,” or “bandit”) by the Turks, were granted lands, privileges, and title exemptions by Bocskay. The region’s fortified towns and their citizens played a role in the struggles against both the Turks and the Habsburgs. Hajdúböszörmény was the capital of these military settlements until…

  • Haidushki Kopneniya (work by Yavorov)

    Peyo Yavorov: …reminiscences of his fighting days, Haidushki Kopneniya (1908). He committed suicide at the age of 36.

  • Haier, Richard (psychologist)

    human intelligence: Blood-flow studies: …emission tomography (PET), the psychologist Richard Haier found that people who perform better on conventional intelligence tests often show less activation in relevant portions of the brain than do those who perform less well. In addition, neurologists Antonio Damasio and Hannah Damasio and their colleagues used PET scans and magnetic…

  • Haieren

    Armenian language, language that forms a separate branch of the Indo-European language family; it was once erroneously considered a dialect of Iranian. In the early 21st century the Armenian language is spoken by some 6.7 million individuals. The majority (about 3.4 million) of these live in

  • Haifa (Israel)

    Haifa, city, northwestern Israel. The principal port of the country, it lies along the Bay of Haifa overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Haifa is first mentioned in the Talmud (c. 1st–4th century ce). Eusebius, the early Christian theologian and biblical topographer, referred to it as Sykaminos. The

  • Haifanggou Formation (rock deposit, China)

    Castorocauda: Castorocauda was found in the Jiulongshan Formation (which is also called the Haifanggou Formation) of China, which preserved a nearly complete skeleton and skull, along with carbonized impressions of the skin and hair. Like living mammals, it had integument with an undercoat and guard hairs. Although it was not directly…

  • Háifoss (waterfall, Iceland)

    Hái Falls, waterfall in southern Iceland. It is on the Fossá (a tributary of the Thjórs), upstream from Búrfell. Iceland’s second highest cataract, Hái Falls has a 400-foot (122-metre) vertical

  • Haig, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl, Viscount Dawick, Baron Haig of Bemersyde (British military leader)

    Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was a British field marshal, commander in chief of the British forces in France during most of World War I. His strategy of attrition (tautly summarized as “kill more Germans”) resulted in enormous numbers of British casualties but little immediate gain in 1916–17 and

  • Haig, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl, Viscount Dawick, Baron Haig of Bemersyde (British military leader)

    Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was a British field marshal, commander in chief of the British forces in France during most of World War I. His strategy of attrition (tautly summarized as “kill more Germans”) resulted in enormous numbers of British casualties but little immediate gain in 1916–17 and

  • Haig, The (American golfer)

    Walter Hagen was an American professional golfer, one of the most colourful sports personages of his time, who is credited with doing more than any other golfer to raise the social standing of his profession. He was exceptionally self-confident. He dressed stylishly, lived extravagantly, played

  • Haig-Simons definition of income (economics)

    income tax: The meaning of income: …and capricious results is “accrued income,” which is the money value of the goods and services consumed by the taxpayer plus or minus any change in net worth during a given period of time. (Tax experts commonly call this the Haig-Simons definition of income, based on work by American…

  • Haight, the (district, San Francisco, California, United States)

    Haight-Ashbury, district within the city of San Francisco, California, U.S., adjacent to Golden Gate Park. The district became famous as a bohemian enclave in the 1950s and ’60s and was the centre of a large African American population. By the mid-1960s the district was becoming a centre of the

  • Haight-Ashbury (district, San Francisco, California, United States)

    Haight-Ashbury, district within the city of San Francisco, California, U.S., adjacent to Golden Gate Park. The district became famous as a bohemian enclave in the 1950s and ’60s and was the centre of a large African American population. By the mid-1960s the district was becoming a centre of the

  • Haight-Ashbury Switchboard

    The Flower Children: Anatomy of a Subculture: …free store operations, started a HIP Switchboard telephone exchange to locate runaways and lost friends and to put people in contact with needed services.

  • Haightville (Illinois, United States)

    Rockford, city, seat (1836) of Winnebago county, northern Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Rock River, about 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Chicago. Rockford was founded by New Englanders in 1834 as separate settlements (commonly known as Kentville and Haightville, for the founders of each) on each

  • Haigneré, Claudie (French cosmonaut, doctor, and politician)

    Claudie Haigneré is a French cosmonaut, doctor, and politician who was the first French woman in space (1996). Haigneré graduated as a rheumatologist from Faculté de Médecine and Faculté des Sciences in Paris and completed a doctorate in neurosciences in 1992. From 1984 to 1992 she worked at the

  • haigon (Japanese language)

    Japanese literature: Early Tokugawa period (1603–c. 1770): …by the presence of a haigon—a word of Chinese or recent origin that was normally not tolerated in classical verse.

  • haik (clothing)

    dress: The Middle East from the 6th century: These included the haik, which was an oblong piece of material (generally striped) that the Arabs used to wrap around their bodies and heads for day or night wear; the material measured about 18 feet by 6 feet (5.5 by 1.8 metres). A similar mantle was the burnous,…

  • haikai (verse form)

    haikai, a comic renga, or Japanese linked-verse form. The haikai was developed as early as the 16th century as a diversion from the composition of the more serious renga

  • haikai no renga (verse form)

    haikai, a comic renga, or Japanese linked-verse form. The haikai was developed as early as the 16th century as a diversion from the composition of the more serious renga

  • Haikou (China)

    Haikou, city and capital of Hainan sheng (province), southern China. It is situated on the north coast of Hainan Island, facing the Leizhou Peninsula, across the Hainan (Qiongzhou) Strait (9.5 miles [15 km] wide). Haikou originally grew up as the port for Qiongshan, the ancient administrative

  • Haikouella (fossil animal genus)

    chordate: Evolution and paleontology: …animals—such as Yunnanozoon lividum and Haikouella (both of which date to 530 million years ago and possess several chordate features)—should be considered chordates. An extensive vertebrate fossil record begins about 400 million years ago.

  • haiku (Japanese literature)

    haiku, unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. The haiku first emerged in Japanese literature during the 17th century, as a terse reaction to elaborate poetic traditions, though it did not become known by the name haiku until

  • hail (meteorology)

    hail, precipitation of balls or pieces of ice with a diameter of 5 mm (about 0.2 inch) to more than 15 cm (about 6 inches). In contrast, ice pellets (sleet; sometimes called small hail) have a diameter less than 5 mm. Because the formation of hail usually requires cumulonimbus or other convective

  • Hail and Farewell (work by Moore)

    biography: Specialized forms of autobiography: …in favour of Irish art, Hail and Farewell (1911–14), illustrate the variations of intellectual autobiography. Finally, somewhat analogous to the novel as biography (for example, Graves’s I, Claudius) is the autobiography thinly disguised as, or transformed into, the novel. This group includes such works as Samuel Butler’s Way of All…

  • Hail Mary (film by Godard [1985])

    Jean-Luc Godard: Later work and awards of Jean-Luc Godard: …Je vous salue, Marie (1985; Hail Mary)—that served as personal statements on femininity, nature, and Christianity.

  • Hail Mary (prayer)

    Hail Mary, a principal prayer of the Roman Catholic Church, comprising three parts, addressed to the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. The prayer is recited in the devotional practice of the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin and is often assigned as penance during the sacrament of reconciliation

  • Hail Mary pass (football)

    How Did the “Hail Mary Pass” Get Its Name?: …began using the expression “Hail Mary pass” (or even just “Hail Mary”) to describe similar late-in-the-game long-shot efforts. More often than not, a “Hail Mary pass” specifically means a long throw into or near the end zone in the fourth quarter of a game. (Even better if there are…

  • hail pellet (meteorology)

    climate: Showers, thunderstorms, and hail: The hailstones that fall from deep, vigorous clouds in warm weather consist of a core surrounded by several alternate layers of clear and opaque ice. When the growing particle traverses a region of relatively high air temperature or high concentration of liquid water, or both, the…

  • hail stone (meteorology)

    climate: Showers, thunderstorms, and hail: The hailstones that fall from deep, vigorous clouds in warm weather consist of a core surrounded by several alternate layers of clear and opaque ice. When the growing particle traverses a region of relatively high air temperature or high concentration of liquid water, or both, the…

  • Hail the Conquering Hero (film by Sturges [1944])

    Preston Sturges: Films of the mid-1940s to mid-1950s: …also at the centre of Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), Sturges’s incisive satire on America’s propensity for hero worship. This time Backen played a Marine who, having been discharged from the service because he suffered from hay fever, returns home to family and friends who not only believe that he…

  • Hail to the Emperor! (work by Yi)

    Yi Munyŏl: Hwagje-rŭl wihayŏ (1982; Hail to the Emperor!), a jeu d’esprit, is a rambunctious satire on imperial delusions that showcases the author’s incredible erudition. In Yŏngung sidae (1984; The Age of Heroes), Yi imaginatively reconstructed what he imagined his father’s life might have been like after his defection to…

  • Hail to the Thief (album by Radiohead)

    Radiohead: …roots on the much-anticipated album Hail to the Thief (2003), which reached number three on the U.S. album charts. In 2006 Yorke, who had reluctantly become for some the voice of his generation, collaborated with the group’s modernist producer, Nigel Godrich, on a solo album, The Eraser.

  • Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll (film by Hackford [1987])

    Chuck Berry: …release of the documentary film Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll, featuring footage from his 60th birthday concert and guest appearances by Keith Richards and Bruce Springsteen.

  • Hail, Caesar! (film by Joel and Ethan Coen [2016])

    George Clooney: Gravity and later films: …brothers for the Hollywood comedy Hail, Caesar! (2016), in which he played a kidnapped movie star. His character in Jodie Foster’s Money Monster (2016) is a finance pundit who is taken hostage by a former devotee of his advice. In 2017 Clooney directed and adapted a screenplay by the Coen…

  • Hailar (China)

    Hailar, city, northeastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. It lies on the south bank of the Hailar River, at its junction with the Yimin River. Since 2001 Hailar has served as the urban district of the newly created Hulunbuir city. The area was occupied by the Chinese in the 7th century ce

  • Haile Malakot (king of Shewa)

    Menilek II: Early life: Menilek’s father was Haile Malakot, later negus (king) of Shewa. His mother was a court servant who married Haile Malakot shortly after Sahle Mariam was born. His forefathers had been rulers of Menz, the heartland of Shewa, since the 17th century, and it has been claimed that further…

  • Haile Selassie I (emperor of Ethiopia)

    Haile Selassie I was the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 who sought to modernize his country and who steered it into the mainstream of post-World War II African politics. He brought Ethiopia into the League of Nations and the United Nations and made Addis Ababa the major centre for the

  • Haile Selassie I University (university, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

    Addis Ababa: It is the site of Addis Ababa University (1950) and contains several teacher-training colleges and technical schools. Also located in the city are the Museum of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies and the Yared School of Music, both of which are operated by the university; the National Library and Archives;…

  • Hailemariam Desalegn (prime minister of Ethiopia)

    Ethiopia: Dissent, protests, and increasing oppression: …and minister of foreign affairs, Hailemariam Desalegn.

  • Hailey National Park (national park, India)

    Corbett National Park, natural area in southern Uttarakhand state, northern India. It was established as Hailey National Park in 1936 and was first renamed Ramganga in the mid-1950s, before the name was changed to Corbett later that decade in memory of Jim Corbett, a well-known British sportsman

  • Hailey, Arthur (Canadian writer)

    novel: Social and economic aspects: …Mario Puzo’s Godfather (1969) or Arthur Hailey’s Airport (1968) are easy to read and easy to translate, so they win all around. It occasionally happens that an author is more popular abroad than he is at home: the best-selling novels of the Scottish physician-novelist A.J. Cronin are no longer highly…

  • Hailsham (England, United Kingdom)

    Wealden: Hailsham, in the south-central part of the district, is the administrative centre.

  • Hailsham of Hailsham, Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount (British lawyer and politician)

    Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham of Hailsham was a British lawyer and politician, a prominent member of the Conservative Party in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Hogg was the son of Quintin Hogg, founder of the Polytechnic in Regent Street, London. On leaving Eton, Hogg

  • hailstone (meteorology)

    climate: Showers, thunderstorms, and hail: The hailstones that fall from deep, vigorous clouds in warm weather consist of a core surrounded by several alternate layers of clear and opaque ice. When the growing particle traverses a region of relatively high air temperature or high concentration of liquid water, or both, the…

  • Haily Gubbi (volcano, Ethiopia)

    Hayli Gubbi, shield volcano that erupted on November 23, 2025, its first documented eruption in about 12,000 years, though unrecorded eruptions may have occurred during that time. Hayli Gubbi is situated near the southern end of the Erta-Ale range, a line of volcanoes in the Afar region of eastern

  • Haim, Corey (Canadian actor)

    12 Essential Brat Pack Flicks: Lucas (1986): … features a heart-tugging performance by Corey Haim as the title character, a 14-year-old misfit whose first crush (Kerri Green) falls for Lucas’s football-player friend (Charlie Sheen). Sheen (younger brother of Estevez, son of Martin Sheen, and a relative newcomer at the time) shines in a surprisingly sincere performance as Lucas’s…

  • Hainan (province and island, China)

    Hainan, sheng (province) in southern China. Its name means “south of the sea.” The main land territory of the province is coextensive with Hainan Island and a handful of nearby offshore islands located in the South China Sea and separated from the Leizhou Peninsula of southern Guangdong province to

  • Hainan Dao (province and island, China)

    Hainan, sheng (province) in southern China. Its name means “south of the sea.” The main land territory of the province is coextensive with Hainan Island and a handful of nearby offshore islands located in the South China Sea and separated from the Leizhou Peninsula of southern Guangdong province to

  • Hainan gymnure (mammal)

    gymnure: The Hainan gymnure (Neohylomys hainanensis) is endemic to Hainan Island off the coast of southern China.

  • Hainan Island (province and island, China)

    Hainan, sheng (province) in southern China. Its name means “south of the sea.” The main land territory of the province is coextensive with Hainan Island and a handful of nearby offshore islands located in the South China Sea and separated from the Leizhou Peninsula of southern Guangdong province to

  • Hainanese language (Chinese dialect)

    Hainan: People: The lingua franca of Hainan, Hainanese, is a variant of the Southern Min language (Minnan). Mandarin is also widely spoken, as is Cantonese.

  • Hainault (province, Belgium)

    history of the Low Countries: Unification after Alba: …in the south among Artois, Hainaut, and the town of Douay, based on the Pacification of Ghent but retaining the Roman Catholic religion, loyalty to the king, and the privileges of the estates. As a reaction to the accommodation of Artois and Hainaut, the Union of Utrecht was declared, at…

  • Hainaut (province, Belgium)

    history of the Low Countries: Unification after Alba: …in the south among Artois, Hainaut, and the town of Douay, based on the Pacification of Ghent but retaining the Roman Catholic religion, loyalty to the king, and the privileges of the estates. As a reaction to the accommodation of Artois and Hainaut, the Union of Utrecht was declared, at…

  • Hainaut (historical region, Belgium)

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  • Haines (Alaska, United States)

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  • Haines, Avril (United States public official)

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  • Haines, Jackson (American figure skater)

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  • Haines, Randa (American director)

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  • Hainisch, Michael (president of Austria)

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