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13145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerolamo%20Cardano | Gerolamo Cardano | Gerolamo Cardano (; also Girolamo or Geronimo; ; ; 24 September 1501– 21 September 1576 (O. S.)) was an Italian polymath, whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler. He was one of the most in... |
13146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabbro | Gabbro | Gabbro () is a phaneritic (coarse-grained), mafic intrusive igneous rock formed from the slow cooling of magnesium-rich and iron-rich magma into a holocrystalline mass deep beneath the Earth's surface. Slow-cooling, coarse-grained gabbro is chemically equivalent to rapid-cooling, fine-grained basalt. Much of the Earth'... |
13148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Roddenberry | Gene Roddenberry | Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer, and creator of Star Trek: The Original Series, its sequel spin-off series Star Trek: The Animated Series, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, wher... |
13149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy%20Quest | Galaxy Quest | Galaxy Quest is a 1999 American science fiction comedy film directed by Dean Parisot and written by David Howard and Robert Gordon. A parody of and homage to science-fiction films and series, especially Star Trek and its fandom, the film stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, and ... |
13151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh | Gilgamesh | Gilgamesh (; originally ) was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC. He was possibly a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, who was posthumously deified. His rule probably would have taken ... |
13152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten | Gluten | Gluten is a structural protein naturally found in some grains including wheat, barley, and rye. Although, strictly speaking, "gluten" pertains only to wheat proteins, in the medical literature it refers to the combination of prolamin and glutelin proteins naturally occurring in all grains that have been demonstrated ca... |
13154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%20or%20Glenda | Glen or Glenda | Glen or Glenda is a 1953 American exploitation film directed, written by and starring Ed Wood (credited in his starring role as "Daniel Davis"), and featuring Bela Lugosi and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller. It was produced by George Weiss who also made the exploitation film Test Tube Babies that same year.
The ... |
13155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Golden%20Turkey%20Awards | The Golden Turkey Awards | The Golden Turkey Awards is a 1980 book by film critic Michael Medved and his brother Harry.
About
The book awards "Golden Turkey Awards" to films judged by the authors as poor in quality, and to directors and actors judged to have created a chronically inept body of work. The book features many low-budget obscurities... |
13156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Fox | George Fox | George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing a... |
13158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Apap | Gilles Apap | Gilles Apap (born 21 May 1963) is a French classical violinist. Born in Béjaïa, Algeria, he was raised in Nice, France. In 1985 he won first prize in the contemporary music category at the Yehudi Menuhin Competition. He served as concertmaster with the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra for 10 years, but has since focuse... |
13159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder%20Plot | Gunpowder Plot | The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby who sought to restore the Catholic monarchy to England after decades of persecution aga... |
13160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin | Gelatin | Gelatin or gelatine (from meaning "stiff" or "frozen") is a translucent, colorless, flavorless food ingredient, commonly derived from collagen taken from animal body parts. It is brittle when dry and rubbery when moist. It may also be referred to as hydrolyzed collagen, collagen hydrolysate, gelatine hydrolysate, hydr... |
13162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin%20dessert | Gelatin dessert | Gelatin desserts (also Jelly or Jello) are desserts made with a sweetened and flavored processed collagen product (gelatin). This kind of dessert was first recorded as jelly by Hannah Glasse in her 18th-century book The Art of Cookery, appearing in a layer of trifle. Jelly is also featured in the best selling cookbooks... |
13168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%2C%20Duke%20of%20Saxony | George, Duke of Saxony | George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony (Meissen, 27 August 1471 – Dresden, 17 April 1539), was Duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539 known for his opposition to the Reformation. While the Ernestine line embraced Lutheranism, the Albertines (headed by George) were reluctant to do so. Despite George's efforts to avoid a successio... |
13169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gneiss | Gneiss | Gneiss ( ) is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock. Gneiss is formed by high-temperature and high-pressure metamorphic processes acting on formations composed of igneous or sedimentary rocks. Gneiss forms at higher temperatures and pressures than schist. Gneiss nearly always shows a banded texture c... |
13171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%20Harlem%20Brundtland | Gro Harlem Brundtland | Gro Brundtland (; born Gro Harlem, 20 April 1939) is a Norwegian politician, who served three terms as the 29th prime minister of Norway (1981, 1986–89, and 1990–96) and as the director-general of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. She is also known for having chaired the Brundtland Commission which prese... |
13172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20of%20Nazianzus | Gregory of Nazianzus | Gregory of Nazianzus (, Grēgorios ho Nazianzēnos; – 25 January 390), also known as Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen, was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople and theologian. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the patristic age. As a classically trained orator and phil... |
13191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML | HTML | The HyperText Markup Language, or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.
Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage... |
13192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking | Hacking | Hacking may refer to:
Places
Hacking, an area within Hietzing, Vienna, Austria
People
Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking (1884–1950), British Conservative politician
Ian Hacking (born 1936), Canadian philosopher of science
David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 1938), British barrister and peer
Sports
Ha... |
13207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector | Hector | In Greek history and Roman history, Hector (; , ) was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy in the Trojan War. He led the Trojans and their allies in the defence of Troy, killing countless Greek warriors. He was ultimately killed in single combat by Achilles.
Etymology
In Greek, is a derivative of the ver... |
13208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera | Hera | Hera (; ; in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of women, marriage, family and childbirth in ancient Greek religion and mythology, one of the twelve Olympians and the sister and wife of Zeus. She is the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Hera rules over Mount Olympus as queen of the gods. A matronly figure,... |
13210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20ancient%20Levant | History of the ancient Levant | The Levant is the large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and Mesopotamia in the east. It stretches north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and east to west between the sea and the Arabian desert.... |
13212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Europe | History of Europe | The history of Europe concerns itself with the discovery and collection, the study, organization and presentation and the interpretation of past events and affairs of the people of Europe since the beginning of written records. During the Neolithic era and the time of the Indo-European migrations, Europe saw human infl... |
13216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold%20come%20what%20may | Hold come what may | Hold come what may is a phrase popularized by logician Willard Van Orman Quine. Beliefs that are "held come what may" are beliefs one is unwilling to give up, regardless of any evidence with which one might be presented.
Quine held (on a perhaps simplistic construal) that there are no beliefs that one ought to hold co... |
13217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku | Haiku | is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a kireji, or "cutting word", 17 on (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a kigo, or seasonal reference. Similar poems that do not adhere to these rules are generally classifie... |
13219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Hawks | Howard Hawks | Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name."
A versatile film director, Hawks explored many genres such as comedies, dramas, g... |
13224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Germany | History of Germany | The concept of Germany as a distinct region in Central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France). The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) prevented annexatio... |
13225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades | Hades | Hades (; ; ), in the ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous. Hades was the eldest son of Cronus and Rhea, although this also made him the last son to be regurgitated by his father. He and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, defeated the... |
13236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Hurd | GNU Hurd | GNU Hurd is a collection of microkernel servers written as part of GNU, for the GNU Mach microkernel. It has been under development since 1990 by the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation, designed as a replacement for the Unix kernel, and released as free software under the GNU General Public License. When the L... |
13240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%20cycles | Hollywood cycles | In the classic era of the cinema of the United States (1930 – 1945) genres matured. Short time periods with a large amount of films consisting of a specific genre are known as "cycles". While most would recognize many of the genres as Westerns, gangsters, musicals, etc., often the cycles were significantly more specifi... |
13250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20care%20reform | Health care reform | Health care reform is for the most part governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts to:
Broaden the population that receives health care coverage through either public sector insurance programs or private sector insurance companies
Expand the array of ... |
13253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Mayhew | Henry Mayhew | Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was a journalist, playwright, and advocate of reform. He was one of the co-founders of the satirical magazine Punch in 1841, and was the magazine's joint editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early days. He is also known for his work as a social researcher, publishing an extensi... |
13255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen | Hydrogen | Hydrogen is the chemical element with the symbol H and atomic number 1. Hydrogen is the lightest element. At standard conditions hydrogen is a gas of diatomic molecules having the formula H2. It is colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, and highly combustible. Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in the... |
13256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium | Helium | Helium (from ) is a chemical element with the symbol He and atomic number 2. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas and the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table. Its boiling and melting point are the lowest among all the elements. It is the second lightest and second most ... |
13257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocarbon | Hydrocarbon | In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. Hydrocarbons are examples of group 14 hydrides. Hydrocarbons are generally colourless and hydrophobic with only weak odours. Because of their diverse molecular structures, it is difficult to generalize further. Most a... |
13258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halogen | Halogen | The halogens () are a group in the periodic table consisting of five or six chemically related elements: fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), and astatine (At). The artificially created element 117, tennessine (Ts), may also be a halogen. In the modern IUPAC nomenclature, this group is known as group ... |
13259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20page | Home page | A home page (or homepage) is the main web page of a website.
The term also refers to one or more pages always shown in a web browser when the application starts up. In this case, it is also known as the start page or startup page.
The word "home" comes from the use of the Home key on a keyboard to return to the start... |
13260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hee%20Haw | Hee Haw | Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural "Kornfield Kounty" as the backdrop. It aired first-run on CBS from 1969 to 1971, in syndication from 1971 to 1993, and on TNN from 1996 to 1997. Reruns of the series were broadcast on RFD-TV from September 2008 to ... |
13263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal | Hexadecimal | In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base 16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of 16. Unlike the decimal system representing numbers using 10 symbols, hexadecimal uses 16 distinct symbols, most often the symbols "0"–"9" to represent ... |
13264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex | Hex | Hex or HEX may refer to:
Magic
Hex, a curse or supposed real and potentially supernaturally realized malicious wish
Hex sign, a barn decoration originating in Pennsylvania Dutch regions of the United States
Hex work, a benign Pennsylvania Dutch (German) folk magic system also known as pow-wow
Web colors
Hex tri... |
13265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%20%28disambiguation%29 | Hitler (disambiguation) | Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Hitler may also refer to:
Books
Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, a series compiling Adolf Hitler's speeches
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, a book British historian Sir Alan Bullock, published in 1952, the first major biography in English
The H... |
13266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram | Histogram | A histogram is an approximate representation of the distribution of numerical data. It was first introduced by Karl Pearson. To construct a histogram, the first step is to "bin" (or "bucket") the range of values—that is, divide the entire range of values into a series of intervals—and then count how many values fall i... |
13269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilter | Hilter | Hilter is a municipality in the district Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the hills of the Teutoburg Forest.
As of 2020 it has a population of 10,429, and covers an area of 52.61 km². Highest elevation is the Hohnangel with 262 m above sea level.
History
The municipality was united on July 14, 1972,... |
13270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii | Hawaii | Hawaii ( ; or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles from the U.S. mainland. It is the only state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics. Hawaii is also one of four U.S. states that were once independent nation... |
13274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearse | Hearse | A hearse is a large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car, used to carry the body of a deceased person in a coffin at a funeral, wake, or memorial service. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to heavily decorated vehicles.
In the funeral trade of some... |
13275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary | Hungary | Hungary ( ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. Hungary has a population of nearly 10 millio... |
13276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography | Historiography | Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical ap... |
13277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Roman%20Empire | Holy Roman Empire | The Holy Roman Empire (; ) was a political entity in Western, Central and Southern Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
From the accession of Otto I until the twelfth century, the Empire was the most powerful monarchy in Europe. Andr... |
13279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday | Holiday | A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced. Generally, holidays are intended to allow individuals to celebrate or commemorate an event or tradition of cultural or religious significance. Holidays may be designated b... |
13287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby | Hobby | A hobby is considered to be a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time. Hobbies include collecting themed items and objects, engaging in creative and artistic pursuits, playing sports, or pursuing other amusements. Participation in hobbies encourages acquiring substantial skills ... |
13288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland | Holland | Holland is a geographical region and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands. From the 10th to the 16th century, Holland proper was a unified political region within the Holy Roman Empire as a county ruled by the counts of Holland. By the 17th century, the province of Holland had risen to become a marit... |
13289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Netherlands | History of the Netherlands | The history of the Netherlands is a history of seafaring people thriving in the lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a militarized border zone of the Roman Empire. This came under increasing pressure from Germanic peoples movin... |
13290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20and%20Maude | Harold and Maude | Harold and Maude is a 1971 American coming-of-age black comedy–drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama. The plot follows the exploits of Harold Chasen (Bud Cort), a young man who is intrigued with death, and who rejects the lif... |
13291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitus%20%28sociology%29 | Habitus (sociology) | In sociology, habitus () comprises socially ingrained habits, skills and dispositions. It is the way that individuals perceive the social world around them and react to it. These dispositions are usually shared by people with similar backgrounds (such as social class, religion, nationality, ethnicity, education and pro... |
13292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia%20%28medical%29 | Hypoxia (medical) | Hypoxia is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level. Hypoxia may be classified as either generalized, affecting the whole body, or local, affecting a region of the body. Although hypoxia is often a pathological condition, variations in arterial oxyg... |
13293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20revisionism | Historical revisionism | In historiography, historical revisionism is the re-interpretation of a historical account. It usually involves challenging the orthodox (established, accepted or traditional) views held by professional scholars about a historical event or time-span or phenomenon, introducing contrary evidence, or reinterpreting the mo... |
13294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20petroleum%20industry%20in%20the%20United%20States | History of the petroleum industry in the United States | The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, although the indigenous peoples, like many ancient societies, have used petroleum seeps since prehistoric times; where found, these seeps signaled the growth of the industry from the earliest discoveries to the more recent.
... |
13297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s%20Bay%20Company | Hudson's Bay Company | The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; ) is an American-owned retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada and the United States.
In 2006, an American businessman, Jerry Zucker, bought HBC for US$1.1 billion. The company sold most of its European o... |
13298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplite | Hoplite | Hoplites ( ) ( : hoplítēs) were citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields. Hoplite soldiers used the phalanx formation to be effective in war with fewer soldiers. The formation discouraged the soldiers from acting alone, for this would compromise the formation and mi... |
13299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Spain | History of Spain | The history of Spain dates to the Antiquity when the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made contact with the Greeks and Phoenicians and the first writing systems known as Paleohispanic scripts were developed. In 1479, the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of A... |
13305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Turkey | History of the Republic of Turkey | The Republic of Turkey was created after the overthrow of Sultan Mehmet VI Vahdettin by the new Republican Parliament in 1922. This new regime delivered the coup de grâce to the Ottoman state which had been practically wiped away from the world stage following the First World War.
Background
The Ottoman Empire was si... |
13306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Islam | History of Islam | The history of Islam concerns the political, social, economic, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization. Most historians believe that Islam originated in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE. Muslims regard Islam as a return to the original faith of the Abrahamic prophets, such as Adam, Noah... |
13308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites | Hittites | The Hittites () were an Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing first a kingdom in Kussara before 1750 BC, then the Kanesh or Nesha kingdom (c. 1750–1650 BC), and next an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1650 BC. This empire reached its height during the mid-14th century... |
13311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone | Hormone | A hormone (from the Greek participle , "setting in motion") is any member of a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms, that are transported by intricate biological processes to distant organs to regulate physiology and behavior. Hormones are required for the correct development of animals, plants and f... |
13312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond%20organ | Hammond organ | The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an ... |
13315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoglycemia | Hypoglycemia | Hypoglycemia, also called low blood sugar, is a fall in blood sugar to levels below normal, typically below 70 mg/dL (3.9 mmol/L). Whipple's triad is used to properly identify hypoglycemic episodes. It is defined as blood glucose below 70 mg/dL (3.9 mmol/L), symptoms associated with hypoglycemia, and resolution of symp... |
13316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20days%20of%20the%20year | List of days of the year | The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year:
See also
Leap year
List of calendars
List of non-standard dates
External links
On This Day
BBC: On This Day
The New York Times: On This Day
L... |
13370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsingborg%20Municipality | Helsingborg Municipality | Helsingborg Municipality (Helsingborgs kommun) is a municipality in Scania County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Helsingborg, which is Sweden's eighth largest city. The municipality had a population of
147,734 on January 1, 2019, and the metro has about 320,000 inhabitants.
Between 1912 and 1971 the na... |
13371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Ford | Henry Ford | Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-class Americans could afford, he converted the automobile from an expensive c... |
13372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20geography | Human geography | Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography that is associated and deals with humans and their relationships with communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across locations. It analyzes patterns of human social interaction, their int... |
13373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti | Haiti | Haiti (; French: ; ), officially the Republic of Haiti (; ), and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, to the east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-... |
13374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Haiti | History of Haiti | The recorded history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492, when the European navigator Christopher Columbus landed on a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean. It was inhabited by the Taíno and Arawakan people, who variously called their island Ayiti, Bohio, a... |
13375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Haiti | Geography of Haiti | The Republic of Haiti comprises the western three-eighths of the island of Hispaniola, west of the Dominican Republic. Haiti is positioned east of the neighboring island of Cuba, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Haiti's geographic coordinates are at a longitude of 72° 25′ west and a latitude of 1... |
13376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Haiti | Demographics of Haiti | Haiti is the eighty-fifth most populous country in the world, with an estimated population of 11,123,178 as of July 2018. According to population DNA tests, approximately 95% of the population of Haiti is Black Creole. Within Black Haitian DNA the composition is approximately, 86% were African, 12% European and 2% Nati... |
13377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Haiti | Politics of Haiti | The politics of Haiti takes place in the framework of a unitary semi-presidential republic, where the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government. The politics of Haiti are considered historically unstable due to various coups d'état, regime changes, military juntas and internal conf... |
13378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Haiti | Economy of Haiti | The economy of Haiti is a free market economy with low labor costs. Haiti's estimated population in 2018 was 11,439,646. The British newspaper The Economist wrote in 2010:
Long known as the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, Haiti has stumbled from one crisis to another since the Duvalier years.
Its major trad... |
13379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Haiti | Telecommunications in Haiti | Telecommunications in Haiti Internet, radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones.
Internet Access
There are 3 Internet service providers serving the country – NATCOM and Access Haiti and Hainet. The Haitian telecommunications authority, CONATEL, decided in October 2010 to allow the introduction of 3G services b... |
13380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Haiti | Transport in Haiti | All of the major transportation systems in Haiti are located near or run through the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Roads
Haiti's network of roads consists of National Roads, Department Roads, and county roads. The hub of the road network is located at the old airport (at the intersection of Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessal... |
13383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard%20Island%20and%20McDonald%20Islands | Heard Island and McDonald Islands | The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall size is in area and it has of coastline. Discovered in the mid-19th century, the ... |
13393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20See | Holy See | The Holy See (, ; ), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the Pope in his role as the bishop of Rome. It includes the apostolic episcopal see of the Diocese of Rome, which has universal ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the Catholic Church, and the sovereign city-state known... |
13394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras | Honduras | Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet... |
13395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Honduras | History of Honduras | Honduras was inhabited by many indigenous peoples when the Spanish arrived in the 16th century. The western-central part of Honduras was inhabited by the Lencas, the central north coast by the Tol, the area east and west of Trujillo by the Pech (or Paya), the Maya and Sumo. These autonomous groups maintained commercial... |
13396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Honduras | Geography of Honduras | Honduras is a country in Central America. Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean. Guatemala lies to the west, Nicaragua south east and El Salvador to the south west. Honduras is the second largest Central American republic, with a total area of .
Honduras has a Caribbean coastline extending fr... |
13397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Honduras | Demographics of Honduras | This article is about the ethnic groups and population of Honduras.
Population
According to the total population was in , compared to 1,487,000 in 1950 (a fivefold increase in 60 years). The proportion of the population aged below 15 in 2010 was 36.8%, 58.9% were aged between 15 and 65 years of age, and 4.3% were ... |
13398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Honduras | Politics of Honduras | Politics of Honduras takes place in a framework of a multi-party system presidential representative democratic republic. The President of Honduras is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in the National Congress of Honduras. The party sy... |
13399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Honduras | Economy of Honduras | The economy of Honduras is based mostly on agriculture, which accounts for 14% of its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013. The country's leading export is coffee (US$340 million), which accounted for 22% of the total Honduran export revenues. Bananas, formerly the country's second-largest export until being virtually ... |
13400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Honduras | Telecommunications in Honduras | Telecommunication in Honduras started in 1876 when the first telegraph was introduced, continued development with the telephone in 1891, radio in 1928, television in 1959, the Internet in the early 1990s, and cellphones in 1996.
Radio
Radio stations: Radio Honduras is the lone government-owned radio network; roughly... |
13401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Honduras | Transport in Honduras | Transport in Honduras refers to transport in Honduras, a country in Central America.
Railways
Total:
Narrow gauge:
gauge:
gauge
Railway links with adjacent countries
North to south:
El Salvador — none
Guatemala — none in use — break-of-gauge / (?)
Nicaragua — none
Highways
Totals
Paved:
Unpa... |
13402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20of%20Honduras | Armed Forces of Honduras | The Armed Forces of Honduras (), consists of the Honduran Army, Honduran Navy and Honduran Air Force.
History
Pre-1979
The Armed Forces of Honduras were created through article 44, subsection 4 of the First Constitution of the Legislative Chamber in 1825, with the First Supreme Head of State being the Attorney Dionis... |
13403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Honduras | Foreign relations of Honduras | Honduras is a member of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), the Central American Integration System (SICA), and the Central American Security Commission (CASQ). During 1995-96, Honduras, a founding member of the United Nations, for the first time served as... |
13404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Kong | Hong Kong | Hong Kong (; , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the mos... |
13406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Hong%20Kong | Geography of Hong Kong | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR), can be geographically divided into three territories: Kowloon, Hong Kong Island, and the New Territories. Hong Kong is a coastal city and major port in Southern China, bordering Guangdong province through the city of Shenzhen to... |
13407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Hong%20Kong | Demographics of Hong Kong | This article is about the demographic features of the population of Hong Kong, including population density, ethnicity, education level, the health of the populace, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.
Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with an overall density of... |
13408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Hong%20Kong | Politics of Hong Kong | The politics of Hong Kong takes place in a framework of a political system dominated by its quasi-constitutional document, the Hong Kong Basic Law, its own legislature, the Chief Executive as the head of government and of the Special Administrative Region and of a politically constrained multi-party presidential system... |
13409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Hong%20Kong | Economy of Hong Kong | The economy of Hong Kong is a highly developed free-market economy. It is characterised by low taxation, almost free port trade and a well-established international financial market. Its currency, called the Hong Kong dollar, is legally issued by three major international commercial banks, and is pegged to the US dolla... |
13410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications%20in%20Hong%20Kong | Communications in Hong Kong | Communications in Hong Kong includes a wide-ranging and sophisticated network of radio, television, telephone, Internet, and related online services, reflecting Hong Kong's thriving commerce and international importance.
There are some 60 online newspapers (in various languages, but mostly in Traditional Chinese) and ... |
13411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Hong%20Kong | Transport in Hong Kong | Hong Kong has a highly developed and sophisticated transport network, encompassing both public and private transport. Based on Hong Kong Government's Travel Characteristics Survey, over 90% of the daily journeys are on public transport, the highest rate in the world. However, in 2014 the Transport Advisory Committee, w... |
13413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Hong%20Kong | Foreign relations of Hong Kong | Under the Basic Law, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is exclusively in charge of its internal affairs and external relations, whilst the central government of China is responsible for its foreign affairs and defence. As a separate customs territory, Hong Kong maintains and develops relations with foreign st... |
13414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howland%20Island | Howland Island | Howland Island () is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia and is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States. Together with Baker Island it forms part of the... |
13425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Hungary | Geography of Hungary | Hungary is a landlocked country in East-Central Europe with a land area of 93,030 square km. It measures about 250 km from north to south and 524 km from east to west. It has 2,106 km of boundaries, shared with Austria to the west, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia to the south and southwest, Romania to the southeast, Ukrai... |
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